Cale Finally Gets To Slide

Ever since Cale started swimming he wanted to go down the slide. Unfortunately he wasn't at the right skill level to do so. But now he's a Pike B and able to do so. The first two weeks they didn't have time to go down the slide. It was killing him. :) This week they finally got to do it. Slowly he climbed the steps, never looking down... Never looking back. It's actually a very tall slide with a couple corkscrews. The steps are a little far apart and quite honestly I was a little worried just watching him go up.

I made a point to tell him when he eventually did get to go down the slide to not look back. He did just that. Once you get to the top of the stairs there is a big deck and then a tube slide at the end. Cale walked to the slide's opening and slowly climbed in. Then, all at once, he disappeared. Cade and I waited for him to come down. It seemed like a really long time. For a brief moment I even had thought he possibly got stuck somehow. Then, all of the sudden, voooosh out he came like a torpedo like his brother.

Apparently for what he's saying he started out sitting up and spread out his arms and legs in the tube to slow himself down. Eventually he took a turn and it threw him to his back and started jetting him down leading him to his torpedo exit.

Did he like it? Heck ya! You couldn't erase the smile from his face if you tried. :)