Waterslides

Yesterday we had a family day at the waterslides. This was Melissa's second time there... and she has worked her way from being too afraid to go down the children's slides, to going down the big ones all by herself!

Summer Sports

This summer Melissa has done several week long sports; soccer, swimming and t-ball. I'm pretty sure she would tell you soccer camp was her favorite. While I didn't get any pics of her at soccer camp, here are a few I took at t-ball, and a video of her in swimming lessons.

Agrifair

Mid summer marks the Abbotsford Agrifair, and the anticipation was high as we had watched them set up for it for days.

In the Kid Zone, which one would you trust more?

A visit with "Tork" the turtle, who was rather quick, and liked painted toenails (like mine!)

Melissa spotted Hawkey a mile away, and didn't skip a beat to go and sit next to him for her picture...

We checked out the new Safari Zone which had a great play area for kids...

We had to search all over for the baby chicks as the Safari Zone had been built where they had been the past few years. But we were able to find them, and Melissa relived her memories of wiggling her finger like a worm for them to peck...

Playing mini-golf...

So if you know Melissa at all, up to this point she has been too scared to ride carnival rides. Every year we have tried to coax her to brave it, but each year unsuccessful. This year Melissa saw this large apparatus and said she wanted to go on it. To our dismay, she didn't have any hesitations (even with this burly man guarding the gate!)...

she pushed her way through the punching bag section...

crossed the moving bridge, climbed rope webs...

and came down the longest slide in the end...

all with a huge smile on her face :)

and she wanted to do it again!!!

Feeling the momentum of braveness, we got her on some of the other rides, starting with a dragon...

next she was giggling on the fish...

then piloting the helicopter.

We returned to the Kids Zone to watch "The Flying Fools" hi-diving act. Pictured here is a guy diving from 80' high into a 10' deep pool...

Melissa enjoyed going on this large inflatable slide, countless number of times. It is so nice to enjoy her enjoying the fun things for children! A very successful trip to the fair indeed.