Trevin Chow

My 30th birthday weekend was kicked off formally with tandem sky dive in Snohomish, WA with Chaitanya and Todd.  It’s the 3rd consecutive year that I’ve done this for my birthday and, as always,  it was an unforgettable experience.  Chaitanya had been before near Mt. Ranier, but this was Todd’s first time. So not only did I get to do my annual “scare the crap out of myself by jumping out of a plane”, but I got to help Todd lose his sky diving virginity. 

Sky diving was chased with dinner at Coupage, where I had a fantastic meal with some of my closest friends.  Can anyone say ground short rib burger with seared foie gras, kimchi and truffle potato chips?  Dinner was marred by a terrible customer service experience at the restaurant, but I’ll save the venting for my Yelp review and instead think of “happy thoughts” for now.

Following Coupage, we headed over to Chez Gaudy to close the evening out with some debauchery over drinks, food and more of my friends.  Throughout the evening a ton of my friends came through and it was so great to finally be able to have all my different circles of friends mix together for the first time.  Here are some shots from the evening:

Here’s the video slide show that was put together by Craig with help of my sister which features some horrific pictures of my childhood. Eep!

Thanks to everyone for coming out Saturday and I’m looking forward to many, many more years of memories.

I just got my auto insurance renewl notice and my premiums are shrinking nearly $600 per year.  According to their “risk model” I’m less risky and more stable now that I’m about to turn 30 next month.  Getting old has its advantages I guess

Saturday morning, I did a tandem sky dive out up north at Skydive Snohomish jumping out of a plane from 13,000 feet going nearly 125 miles per hour.

This was my second sky dive trailing the one I did last year in Italy by almost exactly 12 months. The free fall was 15 seconds shorter from a lower altitude but I still enjoyed this one better since it was a bigger adrenaline rush due to flipping 4 times over as we exited the plane and the 360 degree view of Ranier, Baker and the greater Seattle sky line on the descent.

I opted to not have a video taken of me this time since I had one made last year and figured I could save the extra $90 they were asking for it.

Everyone has asked me why I went to jump a second time and the answer is simple — the first time scared the hell out of me. I don’t think the novelty (or fear) ever wears off when you jump out of a plane. The rush is so freakin amazing I can’t do any better to describe it than I did when I blogged about it the first time around.

The only thing I can say is that I’ll definitely be going back next year to do jump #3. Anyone up for it?