Sydney on the Zipline

That's right, not Andrew or I, but Sydney went ziplining today. Our friends the Qins have a zipline that Q constructed for their two year old son Andrew. Q honestly reminds of the dad in the movie "The Goonies". His son "Data" always had inventions on him that he and his Dad worked on. Anyway, Q used a teflon cord that ran from the stairs outside their house to a small tree. He put a stopper several feet away from the tree so the kids would stop well before it but the stop was so abrupt the first time little Andrew tried it that I went and stood at the end to catch them. For the seat Q used a doorway jumper seat. I have to say I had my reservations at first about the safety of the zipline. Laura had taken videos of their Andrew (as opposed to "my Andrew") zipping down the line that I saw a couple days before and it looked safe and fun, but it was different standing there and seeing it yourself thinking "I'm going to send my kid on that?" It took about 40 minutes for Q, with Andrew's help, to get the kinks out. When the line was tight and secure, the kids took turns ziplining with Q holding them at the start, Andrew keeping the cord high so they wouldn't touch the ground (because the cord would sink a bit with their weight), me catching them at the end and Laura taking videos. After a few trips the cord started to get too much slack to stay high enough off the ground so we stopped, but Sydney was not ready to call it a day. She loved it. She and Andrew are both fearless. I don't think I was that brave as a kid. Here are a couple of videos of Sydney on the zipline.