Sky Diving

Sky Dive Arizona was where we headed today.  There wasn't much activity when we got there so we drove to Elroy and toured the town.

We crossed I10 but there was nothing but truck stops until we happened to turn around by a cotton processing business, there were bales everywhere.

That is not roadside litter in the foreground of the top two pictures, it is cotton.

This truck load of bales is pulling onto the scales.

When we got back to Sky Dive Arizona there was lots of jumping going on.   This trailer load of jumpers is headed out to board their planes.  The funny looking thing on the left is a mock up of the aircraft door so they can practice jumping out.

  There are lots of different landing styles, some slide, some run and some sit down.

This is one of the jumpers that take videos of the tandem jumps.

This pair looked pretty close together, but they landed with plenty of separation between them.

I was lucky with this shot, I couldn't really tell if there were jumpers coming out or not.

There are nine jumpers in this picture, seven on the ground and two in the air.

I only noticed a couple of jumpers with winged suits.

This couple did tandem jumps together, he was sick afterwards and she was excited and happy.  It was her first time in an airplane and obviously her first parachute jump.

This is the chute packing area, the girl was very friendly answering question from people.  I don't know how much they charge to pack them, but some people have several chutes, they run over after a jump get a different one and run back to catch the next plane.  Some jumpers lay out a tarp on the ground and pack their own.

Vera spotted the General Store and wanted to go in.  There was not much for anyone except jumpers.

Vera took this picture of me as we were headed to lunch.  In the background you can see how nice this place is, grass, shade trees and seating for spectators.

We watched for quite a while and then went to lunch at the Bent Prop Saloon and Cookery.  They made a good burger and their fries were great.  The smallest burger was a half pounder so we had some left over for dinner.

We went over to the indoor sky diving next and it was great fun watching a family try it, the young girls did better than their parents.

The indoor skydiving building is behind Vera.

It was pretty warm today so I changed into shorts and sandals when we got home, then I went outside to read in the shade.

There was another nice sunset today.

 When I went out to take the sunset picture I got one of the moon also.

Mona has a lot of solar lights set up, this ornament made a nice picture with a solar light shining on it.  We had a great time today.