I know I am guilty of not writing a blog post in two weeks and I really have no excuses for you so hopefully I can make up time in one post. Andy and I have spent the week with my parents, niece and nephew. Oh, don’t forget my parent’s shit-zuh’s too. Yes, we had four adults, two children, four dogs and one cat all in our humble abode for the past week. It’s been fun and it’s always great to be able to spend time with family. We have spent the week soaking up the sun in the pool, shopping, mini-putting and indoor skydiving.

Yes, I said indoor skydiving. There is this place in Eloy, AZ where you can sky dive, but also indoor sky dive too. My mom, Tayler and myself did this because Andy ha d to work, my dad and Kyle just weren’t interested. I was questioning if the cost was worth the short period of time you spent actually skydiving, but once it was over every second was worth every penny I paid for. Once we arrived we sat through a five minute video that explained how this works and the instructor has you hop on what looks like a wooden horse so you can get the formation correct. The instructor teaches you hand signals that he uses when you are in the tube because it’s so loud you can’t hear each other. So, I had the formation and hand signals down, the next thing was to get suited up. We had knee pads, jumpsuit, ear plugs, goggles and a helmet. I was happy for the safety and all but it was so freakin hot in that jumpsuit, but I didn’t complain and I went with it. As the three of us begin to enter the “waiting area” to the tube it was voted that I go first. I was ok with this as I wasn’t nervous at all until I walked up to the entrance of the tube. It was really loud and I had to put my hands up to my chin and fall forward while the instructor helped get me into my formation. For those that know me, I have an issue with walking over grates on the street. I don’t know why I have this issue, but I just do. I will never walk over a grate unless I absolutely have to and even then I will run across as fast as I possibly can. So when I stood at the entrance to the tube and looked down it looked like a giant grate that you can see down to the ground where the wind comes up from. Ok, this was a bit scary. I decided to just look straight ahead and never look down at that scary grate because I really wanted to follow-thru with this activity. Once in the tunnel it was insane and pretty awesome. The pictures below say it all. At the end of my time limit in the wind tunnel the instructor grabbed hold of my suit and spun around so fast that he took me to the top of the tube. We went up so fast it was pretty scary. I had so much fun with this that I would definitely spend the money to do it again. I don’t know if I could actually sky dive, but I sure had fun with the indoor skydiving. I wish Andy was able to go with us because I am sure he would have had fun too.

Tayler, My Mom and Me


This is when the instructor grabbed hold of me at the end and spun me way up the tunnel.


Me skydiving!


Look at me go!

The kids also spent a ton of time in the sun in our pool. So much time that I am extremely exhausted from joining them. The sun just wore me out, but surprisingly the kids are still in the pool tonight for one last swim before they leave first thing tomorrow morning. We did manage to get the kids out of the pool long enough to take them to Cracker Jax one evening for mini-putting, bumper boats and race car driving. Oh, they also got to do bungee jumping there too. They had so much fun in Arizona this week that Kyle said he is moving here when he is 18 and will plan to go to ASU. That’s my boy! He loves the heat and kept saying all week how he wants to move here. That’s about 8 years away, but I might start the countdown now! Ha ha!