Being High!--Las Vegas

I sat down on a sofa with its skin ripped off; waiting for my turn to actually do something I will love to do again in my life. The place was crowded, cold and big, the other customers there were very loud when they laughed and they did not stop or quiet down at all. My family seemed to be the only people that sat down waiting quietly and normally for our turn.

As I walked into the preparation room it shocked me because the people there were very nice, completely different from the people outside, they gave you advice and taught you moves some of the most comfortable and the safest in their opinion. The reason I came here was because people say skydiving is a culture or a tradition in Las Vegas.

“You will be about to enter on an menacing flight and we are not responsible for any injuries.” The manager said.

Every part of this should be a good experience for me and this is part of taking risks, almost everyone in Las Vegas has done this once or twice in their life – I was not afraid!

I think everyone has now known a little bit of my identity, I am a student and a traveller, I go to places and I do things (they have to be a tradition or something famous in that region).  

Guess where I am going to land for the end of the trip?

Yup, nowhere because the place I am in is an indoor skydiving base located in Las Vegas (I am too small for real skydiving!). For events like this, my family usually allows me to do this in the morning or the afternoon because there might be a lot of people trying to skydive (this is usually an experience, people who have travelled a lot know this like my family and me. Probably some other people too!) You may wonder what people do in a gigantic tube with a fan below. Blowing them up and down, giving them a headache. At the “tube”, the people inside will do some tricks like this:

My brother and I did not know what we would look like inside the “tube” so we asked the manager to take photos of us while we were flying or gliding in the middle of the “tube”! The camera was used to take videos and photos for customers that paid extra so we decided to pay the extra amount that was required. 

Soon after this we were sent into the “tube” for the first time in our lives and to see what it was like in there. Nothing was there for me to do and I was not responsible of anything but to go in and enjoy and get out; there was a coach that will guide us through the process, he held our suits so that we won’t fly very high up in the air. Some of the suits were baggy so that the air could get in and out. Inside the “tube” the fan was extremely loud and I could feel my ear beating; luckily the flight was only 15 minutes long.

 The whole progress was amazing even though it was only 15 minutes long; it felt like 30 minutes because there were only two people, if there were more people, less flying time for everyone!

The dive is done now, the tube has been sealed again waiting for its next diver. Next time it will blow them up in the sky and let them drop – Indoor Skydiving was really fun!

Albert