I'm Free... Free Fallin'

For my birthday Reed suprised me with the chance to go skydiving. After two reschedules, I finally got to jump on Saturday June 30th. Some of the pictures are a bit blurry, as it was hard to track the descent. The scariest part was the brief moment when you look out of the plane to the sky and clouds below- then whoosh you're out. The air passes so quickly during the freefall that it can be hard to breath and the rush from spinning around is thrilling. I got to "steer" the rest of the way down, so we did some turns. My instructor was great and we had a perfect landing. Whoo-hoo! Now, what's next?!.....

Glass Blowing

On Friday Deedee, Brecken and I went to Wildfire Glass Studio in Bothell for a drop-in session. The photo above shows us in the shop and also a few of our final pieces. First we decided on a project and picked out our favorite glass colors. While in the studio we had to wear protective eye wear (notice the chemistry lab glasses in the photos below). Somehow the sunglasses that the artist wore counted as safety gear...

It was amazing to see the flames leaping from the vat of molten glass, it felt a little bit like "fire & brimstone". When turning the rod and melting the glass in the oven, the heat from the fire was so hot it felt like my arm hair was going to start burning- luckily it didn't. Blowing the glass was fun, and it was cool to see the bubble grow into an ornament as you blew into it. We had a great time participating in the glass blowing process, we'll definitely go back and do it again.