It's an NBC obstacle-course reality show that we discovered while we were at the beach in July, and the boys are completely obsessed with it. It's kind of like Wipeout, except that actual athletes and gymnasts audition for it, and the course is totally grueling ... they give you an entire package on each contestant's background right before their run, JUST LIKE THE OLYMPICS. With music and everything.
Anyway, the final obstacle on each of the courses is the Spider Climb, which is a 40-foot vertical climb up a glass tube. And our boys figured out that they could pretty much replicate it on a small scale on all of our door frames.
Good times.
I tweeted this collage recently, but I can't remember if I posted it here ... sorry if it's a repeat, but it's relevant to the story.
Yesterday while I was washing dishes and Grayson was grilling supper, we realized that Nick and Jake had been spider-climbing on one of the walls in the basement. Only just ONE side of that particular doorway is reinforced, and the other side is plain drywall.
So this is what happened:
Mm-hmm. And do you notice how it looks like there were multiple climbs, not just one? Yeah.
Me: "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
Nick and Jake: [silence]
Me: "WHEN DID YOU DO THIS?"
Jake: "While we were playing board games." [pause] "While we were SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING board games."
Me: "HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU CLIMB UP? OH MY GOSH THERE ARE SO MANY HOLES."
Nick: "JAKE MADE THAT ONE."
Me: "WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP WHEN YOUR FOOT WENT THROUGH THE WALL THE FIRST TIME? WHY DID YOU CLIMB UP AGAIN ... AND AGAIN?"
Nick: "Well, I mean, the holes aren't that BIG."
Internet. Have you EVER.
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