Over the winter break of 2006-2007 my family and I visited the Gulf area for a family vacation. This was shortly after hurricane Katrina so it was definitely an eye opener; but we managed to have our own bit of fun on the side anyways. The trip included driving around the coast to towns like New Orleans, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi, and Slidell, Louisiana. In Slidell we found a company that offered "tandem" sky diving. Yes, that's correct: jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at an altitude of 10,000 feet, falling at 120 miles an hour, pulling the ripcord between 5,000 and 3,000 feet, all while attached to a short-haired Louisianian Santa Claus! The best part about the whole experience was the fact that I was not the only person in my family to fall; my father, mother, brother, and sister all joined in the our little gravitational experiment!
Best wishes,
-Jerron Jorgensen
