Speaker 1: Apod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode of am
Speaker 1: I A Bad Mom? Podcast? We cover all types of
Speaker 1: topics on this podcast, don't we Yeah, we we have
Speaker 1: a laugh because the people that we surround ourselves with,
Speaker 1: when telling them about this podcast, you're going to be
Speaker 1: almost cautious about whether they do or don't have children. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, there was a couple of people that are like, wow,
Speaker 1: you've got a podcast. What is it called? I was like,
Speaker 1: am I A Bad Mum? I was like, but you're
Speaker 1: not a parent yet, so don't listen to it. You
Speaker 1: might choose, we might sort of you know, shift up
Speaker 1: how you choose about this. We're still encouraging everyone to
Speaker 1: have children. Am I a Bad Mum? For cramping their style?
Speaker 1: On the weekend, I decided let's go to a tree
Speaker 1: top challenge. I love the tree top.
Speaker 2: We've spoken about tree before and just FAYI like, they
Speaker 2: don't sponsor the podcast.
Speaker 1: They should know they should. This was the second time
Speaker 1: that my girls and I had done it.
Speaker 2: So you go high and then it's like ziplining, yea ziplining.
Speaker 1: You zip line in and then you get to a
Speaker 1: certain point and then you've got They call them games
Speaker 1: but it's like little challenges to get from one side
Speaker 1: to the other. You're basically up high. You're up on
Speaker 1: the trees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta harness on and then things like like
Speaker 2: you might have to walk.
Speaker 1: Across on just a one rope rope, yeah, and then
Speaker 1: another one's like a black net that you kind of
Speaker 1: climb i mean through. It's fun. Yeah, And so they
Speaker 1: have stages where you so there's like you've got to
Speaker 1: go through there green, then the purple, and then to
Speaker 1: be able to go to the red, you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to finish the purple and then get red
Speaker 1: to blue, blue to the black one. We're just to
Speaker 1: smidge of height away from being able to do the
Speaker 1: black one. But we were able to step up and
Speaker 1: do the blue course this time, which was awesome, but
Speaker 1: three and a half hours flew by. It's exercise too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So there's all of those look when we started though,
Speaker 1: going back to cramping their style. When we started, we
Speaker 1: got there on the very first one, so the nine
Speaker 1: o'clock session, so no one was sort of in front
Speaker 1: of us. We're in the first group. As we get
Speaker 1: there into the first group, there's another little girl who
Speaker 1: is seven years of age and sweet as a button.
Speaker 1: But mom and dad were letting her just go on
Speaker 1: the course alone and then just going to walk along
Speaker 1: underneath it and then just let her sort of do
Speaker 1: her own thing. Now this, Katie, where do we say
Speaker 1: we're hooked up? Like you're hooked up, but you've also
Speaker 1: got to what are those things called? Like, you've got
Speaker 1: to connect yourself all the way along. You've got a
Speaker 1: pulley thing that you've got to connect yourself. You've got
Speaker 1: to these other things that you've got to put together
Speaker 1: and slide up to be able to it's so safe.
Speaker 1: It's difficult for a seven year old by herself. That's tough, right,
Speaker 1: So then my heart strings pull and I go, why
Speaker 1: don't you just join our little group before? Come on
Speaker 1: and then go in between the girls. They've only done
Speaker 1: it once before, but at least they can help you.
Speaker 1: And Mum goes, oh, thank you very much. She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm way too scared of heights, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do it. Dad goes, I'm overweight, so I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it. I was like, you're welcome. I'm giving you
Speaker 1: three hours of babysitting. Anyway, here I am with now
Speaker 1: three children.
Speaker 2: The thing is is if a child gets stuck up
Speaker 2: there on one of the courses, it holds up everybody
Speaker 2: else because you're not allowed to move from the platform
Speaker 2: onto the obstacle.
Speaker 1: You can't there's no way of overtaking anyone. It's impossible.
Speaker 1: I used to just wait. She was so sweet, but
Speaker 1: at the same time I was like, and so then move.
Speaker 1: So Uncle Luke's taken off and Gracie's taken off, and
Speaker 1: Elsie's feeling the pool between both of so then Elsa's
Speaker 1: sort of going forward, but then coming back to sort
Speaker 1: of meet our little friend Jane when she sort of
Speaker 1: ziplines over to help catch her and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Right then it went Jane, then it went me. So
Speaker 1: that was the order. So I had to be almost
Speaker 1: like teaching her and guiding her for the whole. A
Speaker 1: little seven year old called Jane. Jane, that's very old fashioned.
Speaker 1: We got on the we got on the first part
Speaker 1: of the course, and she imagine that turn around. I
Speaker 1: had to ask your name twice actually, because I was
Speaker 1: like Jane. She was like yeah. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: didn't pick that one a.
Speaker 2: Pretty name, just like imagined like, ah, right, she's.
Speaker 1: Sweet, super sweet. But she turned to me on the
Speaker 1: first one Katie and was like, can you please be
Speaker 1: my mom for this adventure? And I looked at her,
Speaker 1: and then Elsie turned around and looked at me, giving
Speaker 1: me the glare of like, you can't, don't steal my mom. Don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You can't look at and I was,
Speaker 1: of course anh and I was like, of course, she goes,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to call you mom. She genuinely for
Speaker 1: the next three and a half hours called me mom, mom, wow,
Speaker 1: honestly Katie. And then I've got my other two there
Speaker 1: that is starting to get a little bit like at
Speaker 1: the start, I didn't want to know you. You were cramping
Speaker 1: my style. I've got this, I'm so all over it.
Speaker 1: Now we've got another addition to the family. For the
Speaker 1: three and a half hours, and it was funny to
Speaker 1: watch them start to come back into Oh, maybe Jane
Speaker 1: can go between Elsie and Gracie so then I can
Speaker 1: be at the back with this is my mom. So funny.
Speaker 1: Then we got off at one point because you get
Speaker 1: off to go and do another part, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to do the hardcore, so she sort of had hung
Speaker 1: around waited. Her mom comes up to me and says,
Speaker 1: thank you for being her mum. I was, I'm still confused.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. You're welcome, absolutely welcome. But oh my gosh, Katie,
Speaker 1: it was so funny. I was watching my two all
Speaker 1: of a sudden take a little backstep and go actually
Speaker 1: hang on. Somebody else wants her to be their mom.
Speaker 1: I've got to actually now, all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: want her around. I was like, oh my gosh, but
Speaker 1: talk about outdoors, sunshine, nature, It's so much fun.
Speaker 2: Like I understand why that mom was down there and
Speaker 2: a bit scared, like it's a lot like it is.
Speaker 2: I love it though, Like I love it, but do
Speaker 2: you know why? Because I was thinking, why do I
Speaker 2: love it so much? I love the fact that it's
Speaker 2: a challenge. I love the fact that it's active. I
Speaker 2: also love the fact that my husband really struggles on it,
Speaker 2: so I feel like it's a competitive thing.
Speaker 1: I'm the winner.
Speaker 2: He does not like going down the zip lines because
Speaker 2: he like crashes at the end. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: really great for big men.
Speaker 1: I think Luke's Pulley system on the zip line, where
Speaker 1: there was something just a little bit off with it
Speaker 1: because I always made it to the other side where
Speaker 1: he's kept pulling up like ten to twelve meters out
Speaker 1: from the platform. So then at that stage on the
Speaker 1: zip line, you have to like swing yourself around monkey up,
Speaker 1: you know, all the way to the pip Yeah, which
Speaker 1: is hard.
Speaker 2: If you don't make it to the end of the
Speaker 2: platform and land, you gotta that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you just fall back into the middle of the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know how they get you back if
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they can go back out. I
Speaker 2: don't think they could rescue you from mid zipline.
Speaker 1: I don't would That's what I'm saying. It to be
Speaker 1: some sort of fire brigade or someone flying on it,
Speaker 1: like come through the tree tops and fly in. But
Speaker 1: how I was wrapping the Superman, like what that's what
Speaker 1: I mean. It comes through the forest, flies in the
Speaker 1: lovely people that work there. They just fly in maybe
Speaker 1: as like with something on their backs or something. But
Speaker 1: I have no idea how especially that. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: would come up with anything if that was me they
Speaker 1: got stuck in the middle of that zip line. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'd be so embarrassed because you.
Speaker 2: Need really strong arms. Like imagine if you start getting
Speaker 2: fatigue on your arms, you're stuck there, You're just hang it,
Speaker 2: You're just there.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well I turned around at one stage
Speaker 1: and Elsie has come off. We were on the hardest one.
Speaker 1: Elsie's come off, and what happens is it jams you
Speaker 1: know how it does that like automatic stopper like this.
Speaker 1: So she fell off. Not intentionally obviously, but she fell off.
Speaker 1: She turns around. Oh my god, my vagina like this
Speaker 1: so loud. So the harness has caught her because she's
Speaker 1: fallen my old so HARDAM was like, shut up. She's
Speaker 1: like literally echoing through the treetops. Why I anyway? You
Speaker 1: can't take them anyway. So look, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, did cramp their style, but they did take
Speaker 1: a backflip and thoroughly enjoy it. I would as a parent,
Speaker 1: because we know what I'm like not cope. If I
Speaker 1: couldn't do that with my kids, I would not cope
Speaker 1: at all. That's the competitiveness in you. I loved doing it.
Speaker 1: I loved being able to be there with them and
Speaker 1: do it and watch them.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you one question, just to wrap up,
Speaker 2: if you weren't very good at it, would.
Speaker 1: You still love it? Yeah? I'd still yeah, because for
Speaker 1: the first time when I went, Katie, I was not
Speaker 1: good at it, But this time, because it was the
Speaker 1: second one, I was better. Yeah. And yes, I did
Speaker 1: challenge myself to not fall off once, and that is
Speaker 1: what I did. I didn't fall off once.
Speaker 2: But I reckon that first time that you went and
Speaker 2: you went very good at it. I reckon you've secretly
Speaker 2: been going back on your own.
Speaker 1: That got you written all over it. I know I've
Speaker 1: still got the black one to achieve the black line,
Speaker 1: so I'll come back to you were not achieved that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.