2011 Midnight Ulcer

 This was the crew for our annual ride around Utah Lake, at night.  We have turned this ride into a tradition and we love it.  100 miles on a weekend of a full moon.

 Starting at 6:30 p.m. at the IHOP in Lehi.  We ride west to Redwood Road, then South to Elberta, East to Payson, then North through Springville, Provo and back to Lehi, IHOP.

We had some new riders this year, Arial and Shelly came along and did awesome!

We had beautiful weather and a tail wind, also some strong riders who pushed our speed along so that we averaged 21 miles an hour.

This was the first year we have arrived at Eureka before dark.

We arrived at IHOP in Lehi about 1:00 a.m. for breakfast.

Thanks everyone.  It was a great ride!

Some people call us crazy!
Some call us sick and twisted!
Some call us thrill seekers!  (One of my personal favorites)
But throwing people out of a perfectly good airplane is fun.  Not only for us, but for the person we throw out of the plane.  They want to jump!

Chase's birthday was coming up and we added him to our family club of jumping out of a plane.  We all pitched in, with some contributions from his family and Chase received a gift certificate to skydive jump.

Since his birthday is in December and it is really cold and Skydive Utah is closed in the winter.  It took a while to find a nice sunny, no wind day, but we found one and out to Skydive Utah in Tooele we went.

After a little practice of jumping up 

And jumping out 

It was time to get the equipment on and get serious. 

Get a good luck/good bye kiss 

And get in the plane, he was off to fly. 

Yep, he did it.  

Here he comes.

A nice fanny slide landing 

And the smile is priceless.

Happy Birthday Chase!