And why YES, that is my eight year old who just dropped from a zipline into 18 feet deep water, why do you ask?
The other day, dad called and invited us to go invade my nephews backyard pond. So... we did. My nephew hooked up a zipline that goes across the pond and my other nephews visiting from Utah (I have a lot of nephews) were having a ball on it with a pulley my dad rigged up (they had a pulley already, but he rigged up a different, faster one). My own kids are so not adventurous, but after watching their little 10 year old cousin do things like this:
They were hooked. So they climbed out of the paddle boat and went for it.
I made Ishee don a lifejacket, for which she was at first refusing to wear, then grateful to have after she realized just how far she had to swim.
After dropping, they swam back and used this nifty "towrope" to climb back up to the top of the hill.
The big boys stayed up there to help them reach the bar, otherwise you had little boys with looks like this on their faces as they tried to figger out how to jump up and grab that bar without falling down the hill.
That's a steep little hill!
And then - the high school boys who were there hanging out broke the pulley my dad had rigged up there. So my 15 year old nephew climbed out on the cable (after proudly declaring those high school boys to be stupid jocks - ROFL!) and brought the pulley back so they could take it back to dad's "macgyver" studio (aka - his shop) to work up a new pulley.
And while the pulley was down, they spent the remainder of the time jumping off the trampoline into the pond - thus making this my best shot of the week.
My kids want to go back tomorrow. And the next day. And the next. And... I think I may just see if she'll make room for them in her house somewhere (I noticed she has an empty bedroom downstairs) so I don't have to keep driving over there. Ha ha!
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16 comments:
My kids would have been ALL over that zip line...how jealous am I of that pond and your nephew???
Oh THAT is summer fun at it's best. My kids are a little chicken (except for my youngest ) but you'd never get me out of there!
Great shots. My daughter would have had such a blast!
Fabulous! That looks like so much fun. Fun and scary. ;)
looks like fun fun fun to me, great photos thankyou for sharing them
Cool, looks like a lot of fun! And I do LOVE your best shot, it's awesome!
I think you had too much fun. I should have wandered out.
Yikes I would have been the mom that had to go away and not watch my kids do this. Your shots are great.
Oh man, that does look fun! Great shots!
That looks like so much fun! Coming by from the hop!
How neat! Your picture story was SO interesting. You caught some AWESOME shots! Thanks for sharing.
Hey, It's nice to visit with you! Those are some great pictures! That zip line into the pond looks like a lot of fun!
Hopping by...that looks like a lot of fun! Not sure my DD would try it but DS would think it was amazing.
Nice shots! I love photography! I am stopping by from BlogHop and am glad to meet you!
I am kind of thinking we need to get a zipline/pond set up ourselves....
Please stop by and say hello if you get the chance!
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That is AWESOME! and maybe a bit scary if you're the mom!
sounds like a whole tonne of fun!! :D
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