Super Tubing

On Wednesday Tom missed his last swimming lesson so that he could celebrate Finn's birthday.  Kate had arranged a tubing party for them all at Kendal ski slope.  We weren't that sure how it would go as it was 'something new' to do and all our boys seem to be adverse to doing new things at times.  We hoped that Tom's enjoyment of the water slides at the Landmark Park in Scotland would set him in good stead for it.

Tubing

Heading down the slope

We wrapped them all up warm and then they had a briefing on safety (yeah, right as if they were listening!!!!).  Basically they were all given an inner tyre on a lead, dragged it half way up the ski slope, stepped in and slid down.  It looked great fun, everyone had a first go, got to the bottom smiling and then ran back up to do it again, and again, and again.  It was obviously great, there were lots of smiling faces all round, even when children accidentally slammed into each other.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5H5JWt8mbE

and again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzd2iZZiiro

They even came down in twos, had a go on the bumps.  None of them showed any sign of tiredness even though it was straight after school.  At the end there were sad faces, the adults saw their chance though and grabbed the tubes, ran up the slope and had a go - it was fun.