Camp Wild 2016 Day 2

Today we left baby Sloane with a wonderfully sweet friend who offered to watch her, and the rest of us trekked on over to the Mark Twain National Forest near Roaring River Park in Cassville, Missouri. 

Why?

The Redneck Waterslide! 

What you see here is a giant hill with a cement coated trench dug out of it. $8/hour for totally unsupervised and irresponsible redneck fun. We had a blast. I popped Soren on my lap and off we went...much faster than I anticipated! He held on for dear life and I'm not sure if it was the ride or my screaming that left him terrified but he refused to get near the slide after one run. 

Luckily, Soren is Soren and he was quite content to just kick back halfway up the hill and watch everyone in our group go down a fazillion times. Everyone high fived him on their way back up and he politely declined their offers to take him for a ride. I went down a couple of times with Quincy and Corbin, and then Spren and I took it easy by the top of the slide, watching people take off. Then we went up the bottom for awhile and watched them land. That was hilarious. 

When it was almost time to go, Julie offered Soren a shiny new quarter to give the slide one more chance. Soren countered with a request for two quarters. Sold! We went again, Soren got his prize, then parked himself back on the sidelines again. Happy to just watch! 

We hit up the short stop grill in Garfiekd on the way home for giant ice cream cones. My kids ordered the peewee cones (two sizes smaller than size small and this is what we got. Ice cream the size of their face. I put Soren's into a cup to avoid a mess (hahaha) and he fell asleep holding it on the way home. Adorable...until I hit the brakes and his giant cup went flying through the air and landed all over the floor of the van after raining melted chocolate on everyone. Oh well! The carpet stain will always remind us of good times at camp wild :)