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Alex Cabrero Reporting With all the clouds gone, today was a perfect day to go skydiving, if you're into that sort of thing.
One woman did it for the first time today, and her great-grandchildren were there to watch.
For our birthdays, most of us want new clothes, or a nice dinner, or even something we could use around the house. Elon Widdison wanted to skydive, even though she just turned 86 years old.
Go to any skydiving school, and usually you'll see a bunch of young daredevils testing their limits.
Call it a rush. Call it adrenaline. Call it downright cool. Just don't call it scary, especially when Elon Widdison is around.
She's rafted the Green River. "It wasn't as exciting as I wanted it to be," she says. She's tubed white water rapids. "That was like being on a mattress on your living room floor."
She's even para-sailed over the ocean. "That didn't do it for me, and I fell out of the harness on that one."
Still, she just can't seem to get that sense of really living.
Her daughter and the rest of her family always supported her adventures. But when she decided she wanted to skydive for her 86th birthday, well, they just weren't too sure about it.
"Most 86-year-old women would be sitting in their rocking chair knitting."
"I've been doing that. I'm tired of that."
So here she was, smiling, knowing her rocking chair was empty. Her family just had to be here. They always are.
When her light blue parachute was finally visible, it was just a matter of landing.
"Oh, it was utterly fantastic. It was absolutely great!"
Now she says she wants to raft the rapids down the Colorado River, and maybe skydive again. Good luck to her family if they decide they want to try to stop her.
