Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

"Real men in wheelchairs do zip lines."-Duncan Cumby age 8

At Lion's Camp, we went to the Challenge course where we were given the opportunity to do the zip line. I passed on this opportunity as I had my hands full trying to discover my inner-self and all. Yeah, that's it. However, my daughter did not. Here she goes up the very tall ladder.

And here she is at the top of the 55 ft. tower. I thought perhaps she would get scared. I was scared.

She wasn't scared. That one is all her Daddy. She screamed- in a good way, like on Space Mountain. She loved it. She wanted to go again. She made her father very proud.

This one made his mother extremely nervous. This is him on the way up. For obvious reasons, he couldn't climb that very tall ladder so they hoisted him up on a pulley system. I asked how they would keep from smacking his head (actually, I used the word face) against that rock wall behind him. The man said, "Don't worry. We've been doing this for the last three years." Great. I feel better now.

His Daddy went up first so he could meet him at the top. Daddy didn't get hoisted. He climbed the rock wall all the way up. Duncan announced before going to the top that he would not get scared half-way up and come back down as several kiddos had already done. Somehow, I figured that was true.




Here we go. Apparentally, he wasn't afraid at all. Just ready to go.

I know the pictures aren't great. I borrowed Caroline's camera as a way not to have to lug mine around. Didn't consider taking the time to figure out how to use her's. Sorry.

And then we let Dad come down. He's a pro at these things by now though.