Az Caz & Co

Yee Haa! Just been wakeboarding with the family, the Scottish Waterski Centre happens to be a just a couple of miles from where I live so yesterday I went out with my Dad to check it out and had a quick session and today I returned with the whole family for some action.

I have been wanting to do this for a while, I used to water ski years ago and loved it so wanted to get up there and try it. Not only that but I reckon it is about time that me and the family got active and did something fun that we all enjoy doing together.

Charlotte was a little scared yesterday and copped out of standing up on the bar but today she managed to stand and even gave the rope a try. It is really cool watching your kids face their fears and persivere with something they want to do but are a little frightened, I really want to do more things like this as it is not just good fun but I get to spend non argue time with the ones I love.

I think it helped that Caroline went on first, she took the bull by the horns even though she was out for a drink yesterday showing a relative the sites & bars around Edinburgh. The look on her face was a picture when she first got in the water and then also when she was standing for the first time, I love the feelgood factor of watching folk do things for the first time and also getting to share the excitement they are going through. Caz managed to progress to the rope and was pretty comfortable with going around the corner when it came to turning at the end.

Yesterday I was a little ropey when it came to the wakeboarding, my posture was a mess and when I tried to do a little jump on the wake I bailed out and ate plenty of water, it then took me about 3 attempts to get back up event though I had gotten up first time when I got in the water.

Today was a slightly different story, I was probably still buzzing from my riding yesterday but today felt real good and I even managed to get about a foot of air over the wake.

Would’ve been nice to actually been nice to clear the wake but I guess that is for another day as I know for a fact that we are going to go back again. I don’t think we will go for a membership just yet but it looks like everyone enjoyed themselves so we will return ad hoc a few times and see if we can get Charlotte standing on the rope…

Oh yeah… One last thing, in case you are wondering what Elsie was up to whilst we were doing all this…

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