Our family went to an amusement park this past week. It was great fun and the kids had the time of their lives.
As usual, Chance was the most daring of our kids. He wants to go on the fastest, most intense rides. He amazed us with this desire when he was first diagnosed as being deaf. We went to Disneyland and Chance could not wear his hearing aids due to an infection. We weren't talented enough in sign to tell Chance what would be happening on the rides like Thunder Mountain etc. but he so badly wanted to go on them, that we let him. He would come off the rides like Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain begging to go again.
So it was at the amusement park that Chance pointed to the most intense rides and wanted to go on them. Lucky for him, both his parents like these rides too:) These sorts of rides have not been implant tested as far as centrifugal force as you round a corner at 60 mph. Go figure. Chance ends up taking his implants off for these rides and either putting them in his pockets or ours.
It just so happened that Chance and I went on a ride that consisted of sitting in a swing. It was not an incredibly intense ride. You sat down in a swing, then the swings are lifted up and you fly through the air over a lake in a circular motion. It is quite liberating and Chance put his hands out saying," I'm an eagle!"
I had been on the ride once already when Chance got on with me. We were some of the last people in line, so there were not any seats next to each other.
As the swings started to lift up, I suddenly wondered what impact whizzing through the air would do to implants. Chance was too far away to talk to, so I just prayed that they would stay on and not land in the lake at some point in the ride.
After the ride, Chance informed me that as the ride started to go, he wondered about his implants so he took them off and tucked them under his shirt.
Smart boy! Who needs implants when your an eagle anyway? Your eyesight makes up for the lack of hearing:)
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