I've always wanted a trampoline for myself, but we never got one. So whenever I visit my family in Idaho Falls, it's impossible to resist the temptation of jumping on the trampoline. Now I know that you're not supposed to have more than one person at a time on one, but really, who does that? It's way more fun to have three or more people at a time on it, and everyone knows it.
We played lots of games on the trampoline, such as chicken wars, crack the egg, waterfall, and whoosh whoosh. I know what you're thinking: "What the heck is whoosh whoosh??" That's one we made up. And there's a bajillion more games that Paetra and Collin (my two cousins) made up as well (and waterfall might be one of them...and maybe chicken wars...I can never tell because their imaginations are always running wild). There's also something that we do called "giving" and "stealing" bounces. And it's just what it sounds like. You have to time your bounce perfectly to either give someone a super high bounce or to steal someone's bounce to give yourself a sky-high bounce. Bounce. I don't think I said bounce enough. Paetra is the master at giving and stealing bounces. Well, Collin is too, but he's smaller and so his "given" bounces aren't quite as high.
By the end of the four days that we spent there, my body was sooooore. We probably spent three or four hours everyday on this thing, at least. Probably more. I ate a ton while I was there, but I'm pretty sure I burnt all the calories that I gained just from trampolining.
And if you haven't fully wrapped your mind around how fun it is to jump on a trampoline, here's some pictures...
Invisible couch....
....invisible stool....
....invisible...car?
I adore Collin's face in this picture. He just looks so undeniably happy.
Doing flips is always fun. It makes you feel ninja.
Oh no!!! Don't fall into the black pool of....bouncy nylon....
Piper (our dog) was extremely worried about us when we were up there. She normally just barks and whines on the ground at us, but this time she actually wanted up with us. (There was a chair right there, which is how she got up.) After that she kept trying to get up on the trampoline, even after we moved the chair. She was quite desperate.
She wasn't quite sure what to think of it. We made sure not to bounce her so she wouldn't break her legs, but she was still really wobbly.
Collin was getting bored while Piper was up there.
Oh yes, and when we tried to get Piper off of the trampoline, she tried her darnedest not to let us put her on the ground. We finally got her out of the net, but then she circled around the outside of the net around the rim of the trampoline. I sadly didn't get any pictures of it, but it was quite funny. Then she gave up and almost broke herself jumping off. She's a complicated sort of dog.
Levitating!
Belly flops....they're painful. I did them a few times but I apparently can't do them right because breaking my back seemed like a terrible possibility. Collin loves doing them though. It makes me nervous.
That was Lauren's attempt. She was starting to go down on her belly but then decided that wasn't such a great idea. I would have done the same, so I have no room to laugh. :) But I still do anyway.
Just being silly.
Long hair was a pain on trampolines.
I wanted to lessen the amount of pictures, so I used my method of smushing a bunch together into one picture!
Flips flips flips!
Because we're secretly ninjas.
I hope you have as much fun jumping on trampolines as we do! :)
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