Monday, February 16, 2009

iFly and pre Valentine's Dinner

Thursday evening Andy took me out for an early Valentine's Day dinner. We ate at a delicious place in Bountiful called Sigo Lily Cafe. We then headed up to Ogden to try out the iFly Indoor Skydiving. My sister Jenny gave us a coupon for flying for Christmas and we have been extremely anxious to use it. When we got there they let us go in on the next group with two other young boys. The instructor showed us a movie, then helped us learn the position of our body and a few hand signals. It was now time to head off to get geared up.

In the class room learning what we need to do

Once we were all dressed up and looked rather cool we headed to the wind tunnel. The two boys were first and then it was Andy's turn. I couldn't stop smiling and laughing. His beard was blowing everywhere and it was amazing to seeing his whole body being blown in the air. I was extremely nervous but when it was my turn I fell right in and had a blast. With a lot of air being blown at you your face can't help but stay in a perma smile. Here is the video of our two rounds of flying. On our second flight he took us so high in the air and when you were coming down was just like you were falling out of an airplane. I was the only one that got to do a flip, yeah. It was crazy and so much fun!

Round 1


Round 2


What a blast Andy went a third time and got to learn how to change directions and then the instructor went in and he was going up so high and doing crazy tricks and stunts. They said that 3 years old and up can come fly so we might be heading up again to have Etta do it.

Fresh out of the air tunnel with blown on smiles

Our way cool Instructor. He said he has parachuted over 5,000 times!

We headed downstairs to the game room so Andy could ride the motorcycle game which had his Warrior bike on there. Then with the last token I played Wheel of Fortune which I landed right on the spin at won 60 tickets. We got a harmonica for the kids and headed home.


Thanks Jenny & Family that was the best Christmas gift ever!

6 comments:

Peg said...

WOW!!! That was great!, I have to say I was crying happy tears, I don't know why, I'm weird! But you guys looked sooo great.--naturals. An airplane next, right?!? Love ya, love Jenny

Catherine said...

That looks so awesome! We'll have to try it next for sure, especially where I'm married to such a dare devil. Wade would love this!

Kathy said...

That is so cool! Looked like a ton of fun!

Chari said...

Oh I am SO jealous! I have always wanted to do this. What an awesome gift and a fun Valentines!

Fisher Family said...

what the...?? I saw this on facebook before your blog and your actions watching your instructor "fly" was the funniest thing i've ever seen. Thanks Andy for pointing out your wife in the background! I'm still laughing out loud. That looks terrifying and your only 2 feet off the ground!

Katie said...

Okay, so I'm a little behind on your blog--this is so cool! That's the only way I'd ever experience sky diving!