FL- Treetop Trek

As if all that wasn’t enough fun yet, we decided to try one more thing while we were there.  Treetop Trek!  They call it “aerial adventures”.  You are walking on bridges and things up in the trees and doing zip lines.  They have very small courses, intermediate ones, and expert ones.  We signed Sadie and Kaden up for the Chutes and Ladders one that is smaller and not as high.  Kaden was not having it.  Had I seen what they were supposed to do beforehand, I would’ve known Kaden wouldn’t want to do it, or wasn’t capable.  He just cried when we put on his helmet and harness, he was really tired so that was part of it.  So I took his stuff back and got a refund.  

 My mom stayed with Sadie and Kaden while Ryan and I went with Kylee and Dylan to do the Beginner course (21 elements, 2 zip lines).  It took awhile to go through orientation, but it was important so that we don’t die!  It was really cool though how they have the hooks so you don’t have to unhook and rehook, and risk falling during that time, or doing double safety measures that take a long time and are hard to remember.  They have hooks with a little hole in it big enough to slide past connectors, but not big enough to come off the ropes.  I don’t know if that makes sense, but trust me, it was cool.

We had a lot of fun.  I was very surprised at how little fear Dylan had.  He has developed this fear of heights and thrilling rides lately so I wasn’t even sure he would like it.  But he took off and I had to ask him to wait for me a few times.  I guess he was confident that he was strapped in and wouldn’t die.  He had a blast.  Some of it was a bit scary for me!  Got my heart pumping.  But I trust the lines as well.  Some day it would be fun to go do some of the harder courses meant for adults/teens.  They are a lot longer and harder and probable require some strength, right up my alley.