My Girls: Backwards up the Hotel Pool Slide!

well first off I have been dying to post about a visit we had to the hotel pool a couple weeks ago... we went to the pool nearby on a Monday afternoon around 4 p.m. There was NO ONE there! that was awesome! so we had it completely to ourselves... Melanie had gone with us as well! :)

so my girls have never quite gotten up the nerve to go down the slide. They have gone up to the top and walked back down the stairs on many occassions. So since no one is there... I put them in the mouth of the slide (taking turns of course!) and encourage them to just go back a bit to try it. So they do, over and over... going up a little bit more at a time. I kept expecting that at any moment someone would come in and I would be banned from the pool... but no one did and the kids were having a great time experimenting and testing their fears in a way they felt comfortable with.

Now we have gotten to the point where they were were walking up and around inside it sooo far. At one point, my littlest had gone in and up and Mel and I got stressed... no sign of her.... and it was several minutes... I yelled out her name and then I heard giggling.... manic giggling---from above... I look up and see her up there waving from the landing at the top of the slide. So I said... well you might as well come down now. She beamed at me and hopped in and slid down!!!! and since she asked for me to catch her - she slammed into me! And then she kept slamming into me over and over and the other one kept watching and pondering... Then at one point when my littlest was whipping down the slide at top speed... I moved as I did not want to whammied again and came out spinning and kersplash - under she went with her Barbie life jacket on. She pops back up and burst out laughing and says I am going again without you there!

Before we left, my eldest decided to give it a go and loved it too! I was sooooo proud of her. She is much more cautious then her little sister. She asked if we uncurled the slide would it be as big a hill as Splash Mountain and I pondered it and said... yes, I think so. Then she said... "maybe, just maybe, I will go on Splash Mountain next time."

:)