Wipeout!

I don't know if you have ever seen the show Wipeout, but if you haven't I would really recommend watching it before reading any further. 

http://abc.go.com/shows/wipeout/

Because today we LIVED Wipeout, in all it's splashy, loss of body control glory... although, without the punching wall.

This course is set up in Bong-mu park, in the lake by our house.  Yup, the same one that I run around each morning.  And I have been looking at this set-up longingly each day. 
 

So basically there are all of these floaties out in the lake, tethered to the shore and to each other in one long floaty, undulating course.  And if that isn't hard enough, it is wet.  And slippery. 

And WICKED fun! 

Part of the W25,000 entrance fee also pays for one boat ride each.  Here are the kids and Mr. Jolly, the grade 3 teacher.

And here I am with the big kids. 

Our boat guy was crazy, and whooped us all over the lake.

How do I always get roped into going on these things?  Oh yeah, it is because I volunteer to go :)  Hey, someone has to be a little crazy!

So FUN!  Also, behind us you can see the new apartments they are building.  When we left last June, they were just starting these.  Hopefully next year we'll be living in one of them.

It is hard to tell from the picture what I am doing, but can you sort of see the three floatie gray rectangles?  Well they are about the size of couch cushions, and there are 9 of them tied together.  The point is to run across all 9 without falling in. 

I can only get to 4.

This one is like two floating trampolines with the long blue tube connecting them.  Again, the point is to run across, without falling in.  Keep your eye on the guy in the life vest...

Whoops! 

We spent four hours playing on these crazy things, and by the end we had just about lost control of our limbs.  It is really tiring trying to haul yourself up out of the water all day, and eventually you just beach yourself like a whale and wait to be pushed back in.

On the walk home the kids used these- they are air jet shoe cleaners- to dry themselves off. 

R-man is double fist blow drying his shorts. 

And a good time was had by all!