On Day 1 of our family reunion, we decided to go downtown. Unfortunately, dark rain clouds were swooping in pretty quickly, so we aborted our plan to go to Peter's Drive-In and Prince's Island Park. Instead, we went to Eau Claire Market and ate lunch in the food court while the kids all played on the indoor playground. There was a cloudburst only a few minutes before we decided to leave, so we got a little bit wet running to the cars.
From there, we decided to go to the Calgary Tower, since it's an indoor activity. It turned out to be a huge hit -- especially the glass floor of the observation deck. I guess that sort of thing makes some people really nervous. I think it's funny to hop up and down on the glass to make those people even more nervous.
I set Scotty down on the glass, expecting that he would not recognize the great distance below his feet. On the contrary, he darted off that glass quite quickly, almost jumping to the edge in an effort to avoid any unnecessary steps across the glass.
Although he was scared to step on the glass floor, he was very interested in peeking down over the edge. He would always stop just short of the edge.
And, of course, he felt the need to point out the danger to his cousin, explaining everything in hoots and other Scotty-specific jabber.
My brother managed to capture some of Scott's reaction to the glass floor, which I've stitched together into this video:
(I noticed that the video can be kind of blurry. You can watch it with higher resolution is you click on the YouTube icon on the bottom right of the screen or click here and then click "view in high quality" just below the video.)
2 comments:
I loved the video, especially with the narration.
Scott's not the only one scared of that glass floor. They now have a glass walkway out over the edge of the Grand Canyon, but doubt if I'd dare go on it!
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