The Flying Graduate

After our first vacation away from the kids, we were happy to go back to Dallas to pick up these sweet faces from Mimaw and Pipaw camp:

But the vacation adventures weren't over just yet. There was one item of business to take care of on our 24 hour Dallas layover. My awesome nephew, Reece, had spent the week at freshman orientation and we hadn't yet given him a graduation present. And I am a firm believer in experiences as gifts so our gift to him was an indoor skydiving experience! But we couldn't let him fly alone....we had a group pass so he could have company in the fun. 

The Fly Gang
Reece the graduate, Presley, Me, Cade and Mike

Cade looked so stinkin' cute in his flying uniform.

Here we are waiting for our first turn. It was at this point Cade decided he didn't want to do it. 

Reece Flying

Presley Flying

Me

Mike

I somehow got Cade out there after everyone else took a turn. He was not sure about it AT ALL but they allowed me to come out with him to help him feel more comfortable. But he looked ridiculously cute flying!

And since the whole group of flyers knew how nervous he was about doing it, he got some big cheers when he got back in the waiting area. It wasn't enough to convince him to go back out there though. I was proud that he tried it. Reece got to take Cade's 2nd fly.

On our 2nd round, we all opted to do a fly high which is when the instructor flies you up and back the high center tube and back down several times. It was really fun.

After the whole group was done, the instructor gave us a little show with lots of insanely awesome tricks. Seems like a pretty fun job!

Reece, ever the man of few words, seemed to enjoy the experience which was the most important aspect of the trip. As for my review, while I've now done both indoor and outdoor skydiving, there's only 1 I'll do again.....if you want to guess, it's the one with the much lower odds of sudden death!