The BIG slide.

Ryan and I love to do Sunday drives.   In Seattle we would usually end up down town and check out the cool troll bridge, or go out to the Pier, or the locks.  The adventures were endless and fun and usually included something by the ocean.  (I miss the ocean)  But here in Texas we are having all kinds of different adventures.  Our church is now 1:00 BOOO!! So we don't get to do our drives as much but this week we had stake conference at 10:00 and it was such a beautiful day we had to explore.  Saturday we took the kids bowling and while we were leaving we saw a sign with a city named Granger on it and thought we would drive out to explore it.  Ryan was born in Granger UT. so we wanted to see how it compared to that.  Let me tell you there ain't NOTHING in Granger.  The homes don't have fences, most are run down,  everyone has a BBQ pit in their back yard and we saw only one little mom and pop shop.  As we were driving around we came across the school.  I made Ryan stop because of this HUGE slide.   I remember as a kid the only park in our small town had this huge slide.  It seemed like forever to get to the top and once you did it was way to scary to come down.  But you either had to slide down the slide or back down the even worse stairs.  I remember loving that thrill of something that scared me but was also super fun once you over came that fear.  My kids were the same way.  They were FREAKED out going up this slide.  Josh kept saying "I can't believe this is the playground and they actually let kids be on this."  I went up behind Gavin and was panicking all the way.  It's SUPER high if he fell he'd be very hurt.  I couldn't believe this was their elementary playground. Which is so funny because this is alot like my playground that we had when I grew up. (Oh how times have changed since I was in elementry school.)  What was funny was the Elementary, Middle school and High school were all in the same place just different sections of the building. It reminded me of Tropic UT. where my mom grew up.  We had so much fun just conquering the scary slide and walking around the downtown.   I love that Texas has so many little towns like this we can't wait to explore more.

Gavin holding on for dear life.

Look at all the stairs to one tall not to stable slide..

This is what you saw when you got to the top of the curly slide.  By the way it's not ment for "big kids"  I hit my head and got slide rash the whole way down.