since i forgot to add the paragraph about it yesterday, and the first paragraph was not supposed to be in a "Royal We" form: i'm now traveling with Ta-Mi (which besides sounding like a very hebrew name, it apparently means "a field of rice" or something like that) - a japanese student i met at taupo.
after the weather cancelled my trek planned for today - i registered for tandem skydiving: it means you jump of a plane with a guide doing all the hard work of making sure you land in one peace and not get splatted on the lake.
when i arrived there today i found out that my guide (a german called freddie) had a certificate from the Guinness book of world records for more then 11,000 "passengers", so i felt safe enough to go, after all - the odds were good: what are the chances that i'm 1:11000?
(by the way, the cameraman was a guy from Eilat who decided to delay for a while in taupo, for the past 5 years...)
while we were up in the air, seconds before the jump, they announced that the wind on the ground is to strong and we landed again...
i've returned to the hostel, packed up and drove 5 hours to wellington for the new year's eve.
after the weather cancelled my trek planned for today - i registered for tandem skydiving: it means you jump of a plane with a guide doing all the hard work of making sure you land in one peace and not get splatted on the lake.
when i arrived there today i found out that my guide (a german called freddie) had a certificate from the Guinness book of world records for more then 11,000 "passengers", so i felt safe enough to go, after all - the odds were good: what are the chances that i'm 1:11000?
(by the way, the cameraman was a guy from Eilat who decided to delay for a while in taupo, for the past 5 years...)
while we were up in the air, seconds before the jump, they announced that the wind on the ground is to strong and we landed again...
i've returned to the hostel, packed up and drove 5 hours to wellington for the new year's eve.
only picture of the plane for this post:
