A movie, a beer, and a skydive

Judy with her Ayinger Doppelbock beer

Judy and I just returned to our respectives homes from a trip to our independent theater, the Pickford, after seeing a delightful coming-of-age movie called The Kings of Summer. It had interesting and quite good performances from three young teenagers, and a premise of them running away from home and building themselves a home in the wilderness to make their own way without parents.  Funny and touching, I enjoyed it but would only give it three out of five stars. The link to Rotten Tomatoes (above) will tell you more about the movie.

Afterwards, we headed over to the Temple Bar to enjoy a Doppelbock together. I had never tasted this Ayinger Doppelbock before, and I found it to be very enjoyable. Although it's after 5:00pm, I'm not hungry for dinner yet, and I found the reason why, when I looked up some information about this particular beer.

Double Bocks or Doppelbocks are huge beers with enough malt packed in them to consider them a meal in itself, generally having a very full-bodied flavor and darker than other bocks with a higher level of alcohol also. They range in color from dark amber to nearly black. Dark versions may have slight chocolate or roasted characters.

I will enjoy a nice meal, but I'll wait until I get a bit more hungry. Tomorrow is the day I will be heading back to Skydive Snohomish to make a weekday skydive with my friend Jonelle. (I made three skydives there last Sunday.) Jonelle is in my hiking group, and she is going to make a tandem jump with her instructor, while I join her in freefall. I've jumped out with tandems before, but it's been awhile. What I remember the most is the difficulty trying to stay relative to the tandem pair, since they will have a drogue chute that shows down their rate of fall quite significantly. It might not be possible for me to stay up with them, but I will jump out at the same time and, in any event, I will be there on the ground when Jonelle lands. (Tandems pull at a higher altitude than experienced jumpers do, giving me a chance to land first.)

Jonelle last Thursday on the Keep Cool Trail

I wonder if she is anxious thinking about it tonight. I know I was a nervous wreck before my first jump and I didn't sleep well at all. But we are not the same people, and I didn't have a friend who did this activity on a regular basis, either. My readers know that you will be treated to pictures and a description of our adventure together. I'm looking forward to it quite  lot. I've had plenty of friends who said they would do this with me, but nobody, until now, has ever taken me up on it!
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