Family Trip to Flagstaff--Day 3

Another great day with a little slower morning. I took Luke and Logan to the store where they got to pick out a treat and we got a cheesecake (Bill's choice) to celebrate Father's Day tomorrow and McKenzie and Ben's birthdays, as well. We had fun going up and down the aisle's and we saw a huge Spiderman balloon-- they really liked that! On the way home they got to have some of their treats. Logan can pack down gummy bears... and Luke got some watermelon sweet and sour candies. Logan did not forget about his gummy bears, either! It was fun lounging and watching the boys play in the yard! Everyone except for Megan and the boys went to the Flagstaff Extreme ropes course. Logan had his nap and Megan was too pregnant to do the course... We had fun but it was a difficult course! I finished 5 of the 6 courses. Brooke and I stopped at the same spot. Katie, Kaden, Todd and Ben finished all 6 courses and got a cool bracelet for completing the challenge. It required a lot of upper body and core strength, but some of the obstacles were just awkward and you had to make sure you were balanced and took them slowly! I came in funny on one of the zip lines (of all things!) and tweaked my back crooked-- and my ribs/muscles in that area are sore! Next time I do one of these courses, I'm bringing gloves! I think I could've completed the last course if I'd had gloves. My hands were pretty beat up! I liked following Brooke because we are about the same level and it helped me to watch her do it and she would explain the best way to do it--that helped. We all did that for the one behind us but just seeing someone else do it helped a lot! We encouraged everyone as we went along!!! I was exhausted and so thirsty by the time I finished! We all were! Everyone really enjoyed it though. It was just as challenging mentally as it was physically. At one point you had to Tarzan style swing into a mesh rope, cling to it with your feet and use your upper body strength and foothold to get your hands to the mesh rope and then climb sideways over to the platform! It looked harder than it was, but the guy after me didn't swig hard enough and had to get momentum from the stopped rope to get his feet to the mesh rope! I was glad I had swung hard enough 'cuz I was pooped after that obstacle! (Many of them were challenging and they got progressively harder!) It was nice to have a platform to rest between each of the obstacles! It was fun though, and I'm glad we did it as a family-- good bonding experience! After, we went to another great restaurant called Fat Olives-- this time Italian food and it was soooooo good! Megan met us there with the boys. I'm not sure if it tasted good because we were all so tired and hungry, or if it was just really good food. Either way, our appetites were satisfied! We went home and enjoyed s'mores at our nice fire pit! ...And watched more soccer! And played games... we played Chameleon and for some reason I got it almost every time, but I managed to fool everyone on most of the hands and won the game! I'm not usually able to fool so often and I don't usually get it so often! Another very fun, but exhausting day in Flagstaff!