I didn’t want it, tried to avoid it, but ended up having a great time with it. Your kids meet (mostly) nice kids with (mostly) nice parents. My kids took the commitment to fitness into adulthood and have maintained it. I would definitely do it again, but when it was over I found other things to do.
10/11 survival with a crash like that is a miracle. downdrafts are no joke. we don't get many thunderstorms around here and these were midlevel thunderstorms north of where they were forecast, so the pilot may have been ill prepared