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I think there were two cypres fires at Herc.

I'm liking England pretty good, but why they keep the tequila in the fridge and serve it with lemons I don't know. Thanks for the pub night, it was a good time!

Maybe a third of the time.

Well if you plan to be in Rantoul...you'll have the opportunity to do just that!

We did the eye with the kids. No swinging. Had a Guinness extra cold yesterday, yummy. It's midweek, so probably no 2 AM kebabs for this trip. The sirens are going like mad right now with this flooding thing. I'm dissappointed that they don't have may of those neato English ooooh-aaaaahhhh-ooooohhhh-ahhhhhhhh sirens. Mostly the American kind with warble and welp. See, that's cop shit. You hook up the welp to the horn button for going through intersections. Ah, the mayhem I could create trying to drive in the rain on the wrong side of the road in a police car here in Middlesex....

I don't ask for them, but I get tipped about a third of the time for tandems. I get tipped for camera flying about 15 % of the time. Jari Kousma tipped me in Salmiaki for some good pictures I took in Sweden.

Picaddilly line stops at Royal something or other. The Sudbury stations are still open. THe ones past that are closed, I think. See you manana.

I'm drinking your stella now while all of London floods. People, it's biblical. They are closing tube stations and panicking like mad. I'm gonna meet Caz tomorrow at a pub in Charing Cross if any of you London skydivers wanna come by and have a beer. Hopefully Skreamster can make it. He's gonna have to, cause I'm polishing off his beer while we listen to the thunder. It is STORMING. I'm thinking it's all about ordering in tonight...

It's going about 130-140 I think. You definitely slow down to terminal velocity when you get out. Jari and Andy and several of the other REALLY proficient fliers would get WAY over the top of the plane. Like looking at the pilots windows high. Hopefully some clips will show up soon, because you can't beleive it until you see it. I'm blanking on the name of the other video guy who was assigned to Andy, but he has one sequence over the Herc with a fighter jet alongside. LIke I said, you gotta see it.

All I got was fed. Went out and got some decent Californian and Australian wine for dinner as well. Everybody here works, so getting the drink on with them would not be polite. Shut up, Remster!

I showed my host that video. You can actually feel me willing that international group of air-combat specialists to jump so I could video the carnage. Going back to hauling tandems is going to be a serious reality check.

There are just not enough post whores over here. Here me and you are both in London, and all the Yankee postwhores, and, well, Remi, are all asleep. Losers. See you at 1800.

Naw, chicken and sausages, and these neato bbq toasted sandwiches. Will's roomates are just the best. They would be utterly lousy on Big Brother, cause they get along so well and are so nice. We did watch the UK version of Big Brother last night. Funny stuff. Posting from Baker Street again, having walked across the Tower and London Bridges just a while ago. An all-day pass for the underground and busses is less than $10 and you can go just about anywhere. TIMMAE! Adjusting to anything less than an 8 minute ride to 13K with 83 of my closest friends will take a while. Adjusting from international camera flier to meat-hauler should bring me back to reality in a heartbeat, though... Nobody cares if you jump off stuff here. Apparently if you ask the farmers to play on their power towers they will move the horses for you cause the canopies spook them. Gotta find a bookstore now. Maybe watch the changing of the guard tomorrow cause it got rained out when I was here a couple weeks back. Laters.

Ah, good luck. The nice thing about knowing a boss hates you, is, well, knowing he hates you. Have fun at Rantoul!

Skreamer picked me up at the airport and now I'm in his house, having eaten a fabulous South African BBQ. We walked around the neighborhood in our Monkey hats and everybody crossed to the other side of the street. They are all on the wrong side of the street anyhow, so it's no big deal. Coolio.

PIctures to come. The slot perfect formation flying was amazing. Hopefully I'll be 14K lighter next time and will stand some chance of hanging with you all. Really amazing flying, and great people. Come on! Holiday Boogie at Eloy! I'm sure you can get over the tail of the Skyvan! Cheers, all.

I may be able to post my pics while I'm here in the UK. Maybe tomorrow. Awesome time.

Are you guys still here? My wife showed the pictures to my kids and they thought I was playing in snow. "No sweetie, Dad is partying in soap bubbles with half naked Swedish club people" Great answer, school starts in a couple weeks, I'm sure the teacher will react well to that revelation of Swedish culture. Cpox I am now staying a couple blocks from your house with nothing to do during the day. I'm contemplating something horrible and then running to the embassy.

Dude, we gotta get that Salmiaki stuff in the states. My sincerest thanks to you and all the Herc Boogie crew for the best international civilian club/military C-130 boogie in the world. Wait. It's the only one of it's kind in the world. It was wonderful. Great people, food, parties and what a jump plane. And heck, when I jump with the Finns, I don't even get pushed out of the thing. Sincerely, thanks.

I've got Kex in my trailer! The hospitality here is outstanding, and your Kex are on the way. WAY better than a kit-cat bar. Henri has split, but not before ambusing me with the new improved cola flavored Salmiaki. Good stuff. I hope to be invited back, and I stand a chance, having not gotten into any fights and only recieving one warning for a hook turn, and GETTING GARETH A WARNING cause he said I could do something the Swedish airforce said I couldnät. Ha. I got Gareth Burked.

Dude, Cpox has posted pictures. I'm still working out how to get him back. I'm thinking I'll pop up at his office wearing nothing but foam and my window-licker helmet. I was fine until this nice lady I had skydived with asked me if I was going in. I said, nah. She said "I'll go if you do" and then double dog dared me. So in I went. It was fun. Sweden freaking rocks.

Somebody please delete that for the good of the internet world. Please. Geez, these people know how to party.

In Sweden. I left my PC 120 in the bar last night for what would be obvious reasons if you were here (the place is still hip deep in foam, gotta love the airport fire department of Lipkoping) I discovered this after failing to find the bit that goes on top of my helmet to justify my existence here. Go back into the bar after pushing open the door that only looks locked to find my jacket, boogie hat, and camera sitting right where I left them. Dropzones are usually pretty safe places, but this is the safest dropzone I can imagine. Thanks, HercBoogie people. PS: The weather is beautiful töday, we will be jumping our ässes off. New record to set with Jäari, gotta go....

Yep, she did it yesterday and it went well!

Do me a favor? Look around at the stores there and try to find a little fireman's hat. If you find one, buy it. Then give it to Kate and tell her it was mine but I don't want it anymore. She'll love it. I promise. She's sitting right next to me and she says "What? I canät hear you, Iäm on a five minute call for a Hercules.) Ha.