We still had some time until we needed to be somewhere and decided to just chill out in our cabin for a bit. Graham found the Next Cruise channel and it was quite interesting to see what different destinations they offer. We were hoping that there would be a programme on repositioning cruises, but we were out of luck. Shortly before 5, we then headed up to deck 15. I still get teased about this particular adventure. They have a skydiving simulator called Ripcord by iFly on the Ovation. This was something I always wanted to try so as soon as bookings for activities opened, I booked this for me. Graham had shown no interest in this in the early planning stages so I just booked this for me. When I mentioned this when I got home the evening on which I had made the booking, Graham said that if I was doing it, then so was he. He is still denying that this conversation ever took place. Anyway, I rebooked this for both of us and while we were on the ship, I ended up rebooking this a couple of times as this clashed with other activities. When I booked this, I had to confirm that we were under a certain weight limit, which we both were. However, I had spotted earlier in the day that there were separate weight limits for people over 6 foot and under 6 foot. Although I was within the weight limit that was on the website, it turns out that the weight limit for people under 6 foot was a lot lower and I was over this. So I was not able to fly. I was gutted. I still went with Graham with my camera.
He checked in and had to fill out a waiver and was then given a wristband. Then we were told to take a seat. The group before his slot just came out of the classroom and got suited up. Once they had gone upstairs, one of the instructors came back for Graham. The group that went upstairs had been pretty big, but Graham turned out to be on his own. He was taken to the classroom where he watched a safety video of some description. When he came out, it was time for him to suit up. At this stage, I re-joined him. The instructor went over a few hand signals again and then he told us that we had to wait until the previous group had come down. I asked the instructor on how I could get to the observation area as I had overheard with the previous group that observers were told to go to an observation area. He told me to just come up with them. I was happy with this. When we got there, the instructor told Graham to wait just outside the doorway of the wind tunnel and he went in first. He then motioned Graham forward and Graham started flying. Every now and again, the instructor made some slight corrective maneuvers. This looked a lot of fun and I took a bunch of photos. Unfortunately not many came out as my lens kept steaming up. Graham had a lot of fun, but he is still asking me how it happened that I wanted to do this and he ended up doing it instead.