Getcha Motah Runnin!

Traveling into Boone, we’ve been and done all the important places – lunch at Mellow Mushroom. Wandering around the city, we decided to do something different our first step out of the ordinary was the Rock Climbing wall at Footsloggers. For Max this was a first time, I paused as they pulled out the paperwork of Wolfgang’s first attempt and he was exactly the same age as Max was now! Boy, time does fly when you are having fun.

Wolf scooted up the wall pretty quickly on the first try and I was amazed that both boys made it to the top of the wall with almost little effort. The best part was watching the smile on their faces as they made it to the top of the wall, as a Mom I was a little scared because this was a REALLY HIGH wall and as my little peanut made his way up, I tried not to hover or act like a MOM. On Max’s third attempt he picked a pretty tricky wall and halfway up lost his nerve and got stuck. We got to a point where we thought he was going to give up but with lots of encouragement from Wolfgang, LOTS of talking from all of us, he took a deep breath and made it to the TOP! His swagger after was funny.

The next stop was the Fun and Wheels go-carts. We paid for a ride, and were informed that both kids were considered peanuts and couldn’t ride the big cars, they had to go in the Junior Racers. We walked out and over to a track that was about the size of the a hot wheels tracks with cars that looked like they belonged on Little Tikes!
“Man what a lame track.” Wolf said.
“Yeah, this makes me look like a baby,” Max added.

The clouds parted and the sun came out as the attendant came over to us and said, “You’re at the wrong track. You guys are over here in the Junior Racers!” The boys looked like they’d been given the Holy Grail as they climbed into the Junior Racers on the big track.
“Gas and stop. You have five minutes,” the attendant told the boys as he jumped out of the way when Max hit the gas.

The first run around, the guys told me that I need to stand behind this barrier because, “MOM, go around again?” As one guy jumps out of the way and Max runs into the barrier in front of me, guess I know why they told me to get out of the way.
I laugh watching my sons cut each other off, watching them with the “I’m scared as shit” look on their face along with the exhilaration of, “I can’t believe I’m driving a gas engine!” As the clouds rolled in and thunder boomed in the distance right as their 5 minutes of heaven was done it started to rain. The nice guys working the park jumped out of the way as both boys forgot they had a stop pedal to the car.

Ever thought about that, that just when you THINK like is delivering something you really didn’t want, circumstances change and it’s heaven in a 9 and 6 year old eyes? Have you ever walked away from an opportunity that, had you stayed JUST A LITTLE LONGER you’d find paradise that you didn’t realize was there? Take that time to not only be in the moment with people you love and watch that joy on their face but also take that opportunity and go with it because you don’t know where it will lead. When will you take you that opportunity?