Spring Time in Arizona

One of the greatest things about Arizona is spring. I had a Spring break from school this past week and so Julie and I took some time to enjoy the weather, some fun activities and each other.

We went to a Chicago Cubs spring training game. Julie has lived by their stadium for the past 2 years and hadn't made it to a game yet, so we walked on over and enjoyed some of the game. We also went for a bike ride in downtown Mesa and stopped for lunch at Sweet Cakes.

Spring also brought us some visitors...we have had a few ducks stop by our pool and we also saved this grasshopper that we found clinging for life on the hose of the pool vacuum.

Indoor Skydiving

So Julie and I decided to satisfy our thrill seeking craving by going indoor skydiving. Julie's Aunt Mara had given us a gift certificate to "Sky Dive Arizona" for Christmas. It's a place in Eloy, AZ where they take a lot of military and civilians skydiving. There is an indoor facility for practice if anyone wants to go over things before the big jump. In fact, before our turn in the wind tunnel, there was a group of four people doing formations and all kinds of cool stunts in preparation for their jump. They then ran us through a little class where they told us what we needed to do, gave us some hand signals to coach us through our run because it was EXTREMELY loud in there (p.s. turn down the volume on your computer when you listen to the videos below, or it will scream at you), and then we had a ball.




We would recommend it to any one! Great time and no real risk of major injury :)