Mateer Blog and Carpet Emporium: Zoom-Air Ropes Course

Well, the kids have finished their year in 4H (except for a 4H record book, which will hopefully be done soon). Two years ago, my friend Bonnie and I started a 4H group. We are two alike women (We call ourselves "two peas in a pod") and so needless to say, our group had a fun, zany (if not chaotic, at times) feel to it. But, in the midst of that, we accomplished some great things with our little 4H group. The name of our group was the Hot Peppers, because as one of the older girls said, "We are spicy!" and you know - it really fit our group!

When our 4H group entered the fair this year, we won 4th place for our booth and we got $400 for our effort! So, yesterday we all went to our local zoo and did a Zoom-Air Ropes Course. We used the money we got from the fair to treat the kids to the ropes course. It was so fun! It was challenging for some of the kids, but they all did it and they felt a great sense of accomplishment when they were done. (A few of the children had done it before, like Joshua, but for many of the children, it was their first time!) It was so neat to see how encouraging they were to one another - even when some of the kids would finish, they would go back through and run along below shouting encouragement to the others. It was a blessing to this mama's heart.

Our fun and crazy Hot Peppers Group

The littlest ones went into the zoo to play at the splash pad,

while the medium sized kids got to go on a children's course.

Tim and his friend doing the children's course

Sarah was a little scared at first, but she enjoyed it at the end!!

She did great too!

Joshua's best friend

Below is our super fast Joshua going on the zip line.

He and one of the other kids FLEW through the course!

(As soon as you were done getting your instruction you could start and he and the other friend were done with the whole course when everyone else was just about halfway through!)

One of the older girls finishing up on the last zip line.