Thread: Summer reds in the sun and rain

Excellent stuff. Very Jealous. I tried to take my wife out the other night for a hunt as we had no kids but she wasn't interested, some might say thats a good thing..........

Well just for shits and giggles we went to New Plymouth’s excellent aquatic centre. I foolishly bought a ticket for the “turbo hydroslide” which has a weight limit of 105kg. Now despite being an overweight middle aged hypochondriac, I am nowhere near 105kg, and needing (badly) to keep up with my boys I followed them down the slide.

The tall super high one.

Have any of you buggers done this slide?

By the time I got to to the right-left-right-left-right-left max speed craziness near the bottom I knew I was in trouble. The last turn threw me so far up the side of the tube, I lost all contact with the surface and free fell the last several metres at god alone knows what terminal velocity, like a luge rider about to crash at the Winter Olympics. I landed hard on my right side and cracked three ribs.

That hurt, quite a bit.

Undeterred, we carry on. A few pills in the morning and before bed and it’s all good, though the sleeping in the swag isn’t as comfortable as it usually is, and there’s bugger all chance of holiday luvvin’!

Right now we’re in Palmy at the Lido pools... I spent my pool time sitting, quite still, in the spa, whilst the kids hurtle down the slides outside. God I’m jealous...