House, Skydiving, Lion King

So we finally got back into our house, after staying with my aunt for nearly two weeks. The smoke smell is gone and our mantle is white again.

Yesterday Eric's dad, Josh, and Eric went skydiving, in that order. The first two skydives went well. The plane is so small that normally the only people that go up are the pilot, tandem instructor, skydiver, and photographer. Since Eric wasn't getting pictures this time there was a little extra room, so two solo skydivers went up with him. When they finally jumped out of the plane we could tell that one of the skydivers was free falling a lot further than normal. Since they were still so high up we couldn't tell who it was. We asked one of the workers on the ground if something was wrong and he said, "There may be." He went and got a few other workers. Some took off running, some sped off in a golf cart, and another brought out a camera to take pictures. It turns out the parachute did not open properly. It looked something like this:

We were finally able to see which parachute belonged to Eric and his tandem instructor, so we knew it was not them having the trouble. Thankfully the solo skydiver with the parachute problem did not panic (at least not too much) and was able to cut his parachute away and use his reserve. The knot in my stomach from watching something that could have ended so tragically stayed with me for a few hours afterwards.

For dinner yesterday we met up with Stacey, Wes, and Makenzie as they drove through Temple. Makenzie has grown so much since the last time we saw her. She loved Fuddruckers' Christmas music and danced the entire time we were there.

Today Eric, Rachel, and I are headed to San Antonio to see The Lion King. I'm super excited!

The performance will be at the Majestic Theater, which is where my mom, Rachel, and I saw Wicked several months ago. The theater itself is pretty magical. It is very ornate and the ceiling is designed to look like the nighttime sky, complete with stars and wispy clouds.

Eric has been pestering me for the past 20 minutes to get off the computer and get ready, so I better go!