Ellie the ninja warrior

Back when we were in Austria, one night in Lienz we were too tired to go out to dinner and ordered pizza (don’t judge, also Lienz was part of Italy longer than it’s been part of Austria; side note, the gelato was awesome) and searched for a TV show that was in English and not talking about the Mexico City EQ. We didn’t succeed, but we found Europe’s version of American Ninja Warrior, which doesn’t really need to be in English to understand what is going on. Ellie was fascinated and intrigued, but wondered why we didn’t see any women competitors. Well, I knew of one American female who had been successful so we googled her, and E spent the next 30 minutes watching YouTube videos of American Ninja Warrior. 

Fast forward to New Years when a friend is taking about a new Ninja Warrior gym that had a kids day. Ellie was jealous and has asked every weekend since to go. Well, finally stars aligned and we had a free weekend and the gym had a kids class and free gym time. So I took her. She loved every minute. From getting tips from actual American Ninja Warriors on running the warped wall, to kicking butt on her first obstacle and being the only kid, and girl, to complete t on the first try, to getting halfway across the adult sized peg board, to trying the salmon ladder (which was harder than she expected it to be), and finally making it up the warped wall (twice!). 

She was very sore the next day. But she wants to go back ASAP. 

Calvin played in the snow today. Unfortunately because of the snow the Cubs home opener was cancelled today due to snow but they will play the game tomorrow, when hopefully it’s not as cold.