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The title says it all. It was an absolutely exciting adrenaline filled long weekend. This time around I got up on time to catch my flight! (For those who don’t know, I missed my vegas flight during the july 4th weekend because I was partying previous night and my alarm didn’t go off in the morning (debatable) but anyway that is history. I ended up taking the next flight and so all was good).

This time around, we hadn’t really made concrete plans. We knew that we wanted to do all kinds of outdoor activities but hadn’t booked anything, had done nothing. It is safe to say, I wasn’t confident how the weekend would workout. But you know, it is sfo. There is plenty to do there right?

But you know what, everything fell into place. We kayaked for a while in lake tahoe, then the next day morning we tried out water skiing.  ok, I have to brag a little bit now   I was doing it for the first time and I had only like 15 mins because there were 2 other friends who had to do it within a week. I was successful in getting up from the water and ski on the water for few feet. But then, I crashed right back into the water and it was over. But I was proud of myself!! Next time, I will try when the water is much warmer and there is less wind. But it was just amazing.

Then we did jet ski. man, those are POWERFUL machines.  It was absolute beauty riding them.  The max I went was like 50MPH and believe me, in water, that is lot.  Preetham pretty much freaked out when I went at that speed and hit a big wave! The water was too cold and we only lasted 30 mins before calling quits. It was lot of fun.

Then we went to something which I had waited my entire life to do.  guess guess?? jump from 15,000 feet!! oh yeah, you know what I am talking about.  skydiving it is!  I have always wanted to do it and it looked like, that day had arrived. We filled out forms (duh formalities), got the gear on and we were all set.  Then we sat in the plane and after few mins it looked like we had reached the altitude required to jump.  I asked the trainer with whom I was jumping if we were set but he showed me his instrument which measures the altitude (forgive me I don’t know the name) and it read 5000 feet. I was like  ??? wtf ??? We have another 10000 feet to go? I didn’t freak out.  It just made things more exciting.  And finally it arrived. I got instructions as to how to go about it and stuff. And then came that priceless moment. The timeframe between me peaking out of the door of the plane waiting to jump , then actually jumping out of the plane to the next 60 seconds when we would just fall before the parachute opens up, that was THE moment. It is just unforgettable. I don’t have words to explain that. Let me just call it “The sky moment“. oh boy, was that fun! I was screaming at the top of my voice for the next 60 seconds (but could hardly hear it), looking around everywhere, my ears blocked, oh it was a great feeling. The parachute opened up after a minute and we were in the air for another 5 mins or so and then landed nicely on the ground.  One of the most memorable days of my life …..

The next day was white water rafting. That was also fun. There were 3 -4 level 4 rafts which were absolutely exciting but the remaining were all level 3 which were fine. Overall, it was a good first rafting expedition. That was the end of the adrenaline filled vacation.

To top it off, preetham treated me in this fancy vietnamese resturants on the last day. I must say, it is one of the best foods I have ever had. yeah, it is right up there with the very few others in my list.