So can you guess what the first challenge this morning was?  Nope, it was Indoor Skydive experience in Copenhagen, Denmark! 😄 This was truly awesome. First we got our safety briefing and instructions on how to “fly” in this massive wind tunnel. Then it was time to suit up and take our turn. Two other groups were just finishing and we got a little preview of what we were doing watching them. It’s a lot harder than the instructors make it look. Our instructor was Jeppe (aka Simon – no one can say his name so when he lived in Spain he just told everyone his name was Simon). He was great and the aerial stunts he showed when he was in the chamber were incredible! Then in was our turn.

We each had 3 practice rounds of learning how to raise, lower, turn, spin, move forward and move back. Probably the coolest thing was after the first run where we walked into the chamber and the instructor placed is in “flight” position, each time after that Jeppe had us basically dive into the chamber to start flying. What a rush!!

The last run which lasted 2 minutes we had to go on our own and touch with one hand targets positioned all around the chamber at all different levels. We didn’t have to hit each target, but you couldn’t touch the same target back to back. Other than that you were to touch as many targets as you could in the 2 minutes. We all hit at least 10 targets! What a ride!!! Since I have zero interest in jumping out of a perfectly good plane in real life, this was perfect for me. We all highly recommend trying this if you get the opportunity!!

We did however hear of an accident that occurred in one of other travel teams when one of the participants landed somewhat hard in the wind chamber and actually dislocated their shoulder. This challenge was incredibly fun, however, it tought us two things – respect the wind and gravity!

We then took the metro back to the hotel and had a late lunch before it was time to get ready for the afternoon challenge. This challenge was a photo and video scavenger hunt throughout the city of Copenhagen. We had to go through and hit the 12 different locations throughout the city. A race course covering approximately 3 miles. We had to solve some quizzes and answer questions about certain locations that we went to to get answers to fill-in a puzzle grid. Along the way we also had  The option to get bonus points by doing other photos or videos of our group doing silly things. We had to act out parts in our favorite movie,  get photos with unknown men and women along our route, get a photo sitting on a bike, get a photo in front of the yellow car etc., etc.

After Maribeth took her picture another waiter wanted to get into the game and asked to take a picture with Kelsey. What a character.

Then on the way to the last stop we actually stumbled across the changing of the guard outside of the Queens Palace. That was kind of neat to see.

After we completed all the tasks we turned in our scorecard to get graded. As usual we never get immediate answer so we still don’t know how we did but we did get through everything that we were supposed to. It was a lot of fun and we got to see a lot of Copenhagen. We then sat down with two of the other groups for a nice dinner and a very neat courtyard in the center of town. Then we took a leisurely walk back to the hotel to crash for the evening. Another fun filled day.