This morning we arrived on Oahu. As we were pulling up on the dock it was funny to see so many people and awake and on their phones because everyone phones finally had service. I am actually really glad that most people don’t ever have service because then we wouldn’t all be so connected as one big community if we all had access to phones at all times. At breakfast Courtney, Anna, and Kelly who were going to go sky diving with me today had decided they didn’t want to go. I was going to meet my shuttle at noon but knew there was shuttle at 10 that I was still going to try and catch and go by myself. Although I had remember hearing Lauren and Shaena talking about sky diving at 10 the day before in global studies, so I found them at breakfast and made plans to meet with them in Laurens room at 9:15/ When I met up with them I found out Nel and this girl Becca were also coming. We went outside to find where we would meet the shuttle. There was a large group of us and we were all afraid we wouldn’t make the shuttle. So when the first one arrived everyone piled in sitting on each others laps, the driver than said there would be one more shuttle in ten minutes so we waited for the next one. When it got there we all got in with another group of kids and I feel we had more room than the other van had so I was happy about that. Some of the other group went to boulder too and I had met a few of them before so that was nice.
When we got the company it wasn’t that reassuring that on the field where the sky divres landed there was a woman on the ground and an ambulance soon showed up to take her away. I heard rumors that she broke her back but also that she jumped alone. Even after seeing all of this I was still not nervous at all. We signed the wavors which on ever page said “YOU MAY DIE!!” This made Lauren extremely nervous but I still felt fine. We had watched one group of jumpers land already and were told it would be another hour or so before we jumped because there were so many people ahead of us. So we went and got a hot dog and chips from a little stand, and enjoyed hanging out in the sun. 45 minutes later a weather watch was in place because winds from the South had become too strong to jump. I can’t remember how much longer we waited maybe 2 hours for the wind to die down which never happened. So we made plans to come back tomorrow morning and the company would have a shuttle pick us up from the ship at 6 am. They told us that our best chance to jump was to go as early as possible because the mornings were almost always calm.
We then took a shuttle back to the ship and got ready to go to Waikiki. After getting a starbucks lemonade we headed to the beach. We took a taxi so we could meet up with our friends as fast as possible because the bus would take about 45 minutes. On our drive to the beach everything began to look really familiar from when I was here in highschool my with water polo team. When we got the beach I called the girls to meet up with them and hang out. I got a hold of some of them and met up to walk around Waikiki strip and grab some lunch. After hanging out for a bit we went back to the ship to get ready to go out for a nice dinner.
We met around 7:30 to head out for dinner. Kelly had called a Mexican restaurant and made reservations, we were all so excited to finally eat Mexican food it had been months. When we sat down we told our waitress exactly that and enjoyed a really long dinner where we all so stuffed afterwards we had to go walk around after to make ourselves feel better. We again walked around Waikiki and enjoyed the beautiful night, since I wasn’t 21 I decided to head back to the ship because I also had to be up and ready to go sky diving at 6.
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