Ski Jumpers

So, I am slowly but surely, trying to get caught up on all these different things I have wanted to blog about. The combination of our computer having trouble and just not having any time has really put a delay on things.

Chris and I spent the weekend with his whole family up in Park City a few weeks ago. It was a ton of fun. Especially, for Chris. He got to ride all the rides! I mostly babysat all of the purses and stuff for everyone. :) But, one of the things that we did that I probably enjoyed the most was watching a show at the Olympic Park. They had ski jumpers practicing their jumps into a pool. It was awesome. Our pictures just don’t do it justice as it’s sometimes hard to see the guys doing their tricks. You’ll have to look close. However, the video of one of their last jumps is pretty cool. It’s pretty interesting. They shoot a bunch of air into the pool right before the skiers enter to soften the landing. That is why there are all those white bubbles or waves in the pictures. It was pretty incredible watching them do this into the pool. I can’t imagine what it is like when they actually are performing these tricks and landing on the snow. Crazy.

Look for the skiers at the top of the ramp.

He is a little tricky to see but there is a guy flipping at the top of this picture.

Video of the final jump. I'm not sure how to make this bigger. I hope you can all see it well enough. It's pretty awesome! They look like a bunch of rag dolls flipping through the air.