skydiving.
Our first skydive together, 2008 "You've been skydiving?! Twice?!" This is usually the reaction I get. I went skydiving for the first time in college, and then again when Kevin and I had been dating for about 5 months. Both times were fabulous - and both times I tried to convince people that it's not scary, and that they should definitely do it. At least once. But most people don't believe me. In their minds, skydiving means a terrifying leap, a dizzying frenzy of clouds and screaming, and a potentially body-crushing landing. They couldn't be more wrong. Skydiving has 3 phases: free fall, glide, landing. The free fall is the frenzy - screaming, waving at the camera, whizzing through clouds at a high speed - but it's over in 60 seconds. It's crazy, but it's literally one minute long. The landing, if you lift up your legs, is like going over a speed bump too fast in a car - a little surprising, but over in a flash. The best part of skyd...