(Read in a Don LaFontaine voice)

The date was the 27th of June, 2009.
I had been taken to an airport somewhere on the other side of Banbury.
As if the signs saying "Skydivers Club" weren't a big enough give away, I still had no idea what I was doing, where I was going, or what would become of me.
We went to sign in and from that moment on I knew... I would be there for a while.
20 minutes later I got out of the lobby BUT little did I know, I had another 7 hours to wait.
We watched many a man (and woman) jump from plane after plane, but still, my name was not heard over the tannoy.
Eventually, the name C SHEP was written on the board... alas, it was not me, just an instructor...
It reached 5:30pm, I was burnt, sweaty, and in need of a pee, WHEN SUDDENLY my name was called.
And at that point... I knew... I was going to have to put on a full body suit.
My bladder filled with happiness.
I met the man I would be falling with that afternoon.
His name was Paul.
First thing he said was "Lose that hat and I will kill you, then I'll come down and kill your Dad, and your Mum, and your Grandmother, and your girlfriend, and then I'll hunt down your friends and kill them!" (True story)
We walked to the plane, my heart raced!
BUT THEN... it started to rain.
We had to head back and wait for the clouds to move over us.
While we waited, the man I was meant to be attached to, during this journey of ascent followed by decent, left, and I got a younger, nicer, slight Tony Hawk look alike male.
For the second time we walked towards the plane.
We got set up and prepared to jump.
The plane went up, we reached 1,000 feet, 2,000 feet, 3,000 feet, 6,000 feet, 10,000 feet, AND THEN... we were told to come down by air traffic control due to a mayday.
What a day.
We had to wait another 30 minutes till we could go up again.
We were all a little tense, most of us had been there since 12 and were hitting the tired mark.
But 30 minutes past and once again we got into the plane.
We reached 1,000 feet, 2,000 feet, 5,000 feet, 8,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 12,000 feet, 13,000 feet and now we jump!
The wind rushed past my face at 120mph, what a rush!
We free fell till we got to 9,000 feet and then the rest was easy sailing.
We landed.

The End

So yeah it was a good week, so thanks Dad for getting me that.
Also me and went to see Transformers 2 which was good, then bad, then good, then epic, then boring, then awesome, then too much human, then a lot of metal.
Also...Blood: The Last Vampire was only in cinemas for one weekend!
WHAT THE HELL MAN!?!
I wanted to check that shit!