Trapeze Excitement!

Each year when the girls sell cookies they get to decide something "fun" to do with their money.  They vote with the troop on the fun activity, and they also choose a charity activity.  This year the fun activity they chose was trapeze!  For the record, Sydney did not vote for this one ;).  

Sydney seems to be afraid of heights!  She has gone to many Birthday parties at the rock climbing gym, and she's a great climber.  But, she'll get to a certain point, and freeze.  We've tried & tried to overcome the fear, but no luck so far.  She will, however, climb trees, and shimmy up to the top of park swings, so I'm slightly confused on what the fear actually is :).

So...I was nervous about taking her for trapeze!  I was worried she wouldn't even climb up the ladder to get started, but she surprised me!  She went right up, and although she looked a little hesitant, she did it, over and over!  Go Syd!

We really have a great troop.  All these girls have gotten so close after being together since Kindergarten!

Here's Syd up at the top, getting ready...

And, there she goes!  Weeee!

She did a few rounds, and then they started teaching everyone how to do flips, and go for a catch from another trapeze person...she got nervous again...

But she went!  She didn't flip, but we were ok with that!

She even did one last round after that scary one.  Everyone was proud of her.

Great job girls, almost all of them are ready for the circus!  (Syd will just watch)