MEAT WAFFLES.

Most people like to prank their friends, family, or even co-workers on April Fools. That's the certain kind of thing one would do on April Fools, RIGHT?!

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and my story starts now...

I received a call Thursday morning from Skydivelasvegas to discuss my Jump Reservation I had booked for April 2nd. They informed me I had to reschedule due to some wind alert for that Saturday. What are my options???  "Tomorrow at 8am or Sunday at 8am"...

I had no choice but to book for the next morning, My Son's Baptism is on Sunday, has to be tomorrow. After I hung up the phone.. I was sort of just in a daze. "I'm going to jump out of a fucking plane tomorrow morning, tomorrow, not in 2 days, TOMORROW! jump, me... jump, I'm jumping, FUCK!" I kept saying in my head over and over, sort of like a song on repeat.. You hear the same song over and over and after awhile you can still hear it, but the words just become a big muffled sound.

Incase you were wondering why the hell I was even going Skydiving in the first place, it's because I wanted to do something rad for my Deathmate's Birthday. He had no idea what we were going to do, all he knew was that, he had the morning off and I was taking him somewhere Friday morning.

5:30am alarm goes off, by 6:45 am we are driving to our destination, to him it was. DUN DUN DUNNNN wait for it.... "DESTINATION UNKNOWN" YEAAAAAAAH!

As soon as we entered Boulder City, he started to get this look on his face, the disappointed kind. He kept asking if I was taking him hiking and if so please turn back around. We started to enter the airport and all he can see are huge hangers and he's so confused... then he see's a shuttle parked outside of one that read "SKYDIVE LAS VEGAS".... Yeah, I would definitely say that was a huge DEAD GIVEAWAY.

He was indeed very surprised and maybe a little nervous, I think him smoking as soon as he got out of the car gave me that vibe.Who am I trying to fool? Hell, I was stupid nervous. Don't let the sweet ink fool you guys, I'm not that tough. I can't even open most lids on jars, it's pathetic. I thought cutting off my sleeves on most of my shirts would automatically give my awesome ass superhuman powers.

Ok, back to my story...

Around 9:30am we were about to get suited up, we were told to remove jewelry, wallets, etc... and for all belongings to be placed in lockers. I took off my Virgin Mary necklace last... and shut the locker. Moments later Brendan went to go grab something and that necklace fell out of the locker and broke in half... I was staring down at the virgin mary cut in two and Brendan kept saying sorry and that's not what I was upset about. I was just worried about what that meant. WHY DID THAT HAPPEN? IS THIS A SIGN? Brendan reassured me it wasn't. But why did it have to be windy on the day I originally booked this for? WHY out of everything else in the locker, did that necklace have to fall and break? ... and it's April Fools! Ok, he was right, I was being really dumb.... or was I????

Ten minutes later the guy putting my gear on out of nowhere asks me "Are you really superstitious, I hope you're not" and I'm starting to panic and ask him "Why? Why would you ask that? What is it?" ... "Oh, just curious because your harness is LUCKY number 13!" ... "Are you serious, OMG, My Virgin Mary necklace just broke, it's April Fools, and We were supposed to be doing this tomorrow not today, OMG!" Him and Brendan just laugh and say you're fine, it means nothing ... So I tell Brendan not to talk to me because I have to get in my "Johnny Utah" mode and the guy asks If I just used a point break reference ...I said Yeah and he then said "Well, Now I hope something does happen, you deserve that for quoting a bad movie" HAHHAHAHA that made me laugh and it was extra funny due to the guy being a ginger.


NO ONE COULD STOP THE FRANKIE UTAH! I was loving every moment of it... I was about to jump out of a plane with my Deathmate, it felt right, nowhere else I wanted to be, we belonged there. Soon after that incident we went off with our instructors and boarded a plane. My instructor was Brandon and he was radical. He went along with my Point Break references, he was working for that tip. HOLLA.

About 10 minutes in the air, we reached our jumping spot, I was second to jump and Brendan was third.I remember getting to the edge of the plane, hanging out of the plane making my banana position, and before I leaped, I looked back at Brendan and yelled "SEE YOU IN HELL JOHNNY"... After that, I felt peace. I can't describe it, it was like for the first time ever in my life that I honestly didn't have anything on my mind, it was amazing, I fell in love with that peace. You have no time to be scared, nervous, or to even think, you just feel free from the world, from life, from yourself.

When Brendan and I reunited, We both had the biggest smiles on our bright full of life faces. I FUCKING LOVED IT.... sharing that experience with him, seeing how good he felt, knowing we both were feeling the same kind of high...

It was definitely worth the risk of both becoming meat waffles on April Fools.