Cause there are sharks down below!
This smart kid hung out with me while we waited for the thrill-seekers in the family to make their appearance. We’re planning on going to Atlantis again sometime this summer and maybe on our next trip we’ll get up the nerve to try it. I mostly want to do it because it was one of the obstacles on The Amazing Race (a chick and her boyfriend lost because she spent an hour crying at the top and refused to go down the slide). If we were in a race, I would do it in a heartbeat. Josh says if he were my partner, he’d push me down the slide before he’d let us lose. (He totally would too. Reason #43 why I would be a bad race partner. We have also determined that he would have to drive and navigate for our team — that’s reason #54)
The boys and I loved rewatching this after having been there in person. We never dreamed when it was on originally that someday soon we’d be at Atlantis ourselves. We were totally hoping that the Globetrotters would beat the dating couple, but never imagined that the chick wouldn’t be able to go down the waterslide. The pitstop is located right on the hotel beach. Our room/balcony had a view of right where Phil was standing.
No tears from this kid — he hopped right on and went for it. Just like one of the Globetrotters. I love this sequence of pictures because it looks like a flip-book of his ride when you scroll through them quickly.
Looks like fun, huh?