Saturday, December 29, 2007

This is our resident burrowing owl. Isn't he cute. He was standing beside the cactus sunning himself this morning when Jack and Brandy went out for their morning walk. Jack was kind enough to come and get me so I could snap a picture.

We started our morning with pancakes at the Cantina with Jack and Cathy. We didn't work - we just ate. We took Jack and Cathy on a tour of the park so they could find their way around and back to the camper. Next was a trip to town to finish the shopping for the New Year's Eve party and to stock Jack and Cathy's new camper with food. After the trip we dropped off all the goodies and had a bite to lunch. Now we were off to Sky Dive Arizona at the Eloy airport to watch the collegiate skydiving championships. The sky was full of sky divers all afternoon. A big attraction was the "indoor skydiving" adventure. It is a wind tunnel that simulates a sky dive. After I watched that, I knew that sky diving was not for me. Bruce already knew he didn't want to ever jump out of a real airplane but he sure does want to try the wind tunnel.

Here's a shot of the airplane taking off for a big jump:

This is a shot of two people doing a tandem jump.

The duo made a safe landing.

It was hard to capture the true picture but you can see that the whole sky was full of divers.

Here's a guy packing his own chute.

Sky Dive Arizona -Indoor Skydiving.

The "wind" was blowing approximately 118 mph to keep this big guy up in the air. You can see in the first picture that he used his leg to stay away from the glass. He was just floating in the second picture.