Big Time Sledding

This past weekend we had a chance to go to a local golf course and do some "real" sledding. The kids have only experienced sledding on our small hill in our backyard, so this was "big time." We had to walk a LONG way to get to the "best" hill (according to Dan, who had been there before and took us this time). And I had to carry Abigail most of the way, although Dan did help by pulling us a little way on the sled. We started out on this smaller hill, then kept going to the bigger one.

See how tall it is? I really didn't want to attempt to make it to the top, especially while carrying Abigail, and knowing that she does NOT like sledding (she cried when I went down the smaller hill with her). So I waited for them at the bottom. Andrew and Leah went back and forth from being scared to saying it was fun and then saying it was scary again. Today they still say it was too scary and they didn't really like it. They didn't mind the smaller of the hills, though.

Here is a video to give you an idea of just how far down this hill goes! Dan is the one that fell off at the top. The kids were fine, they just didn't know how to stop!

I did get to go down the big one, but I went on the tube and hit a giant rock on the way down, ripping a huge tear into the tube and stopping cold not even all the way at the bottom of the hill. It was pretty fun and also a rush, but it was a bummer I didn't get to go the whole way, and our big tube was no good anymore.

She did warm up to the snow a little bit and started walking around some toward the end, but mostly she wanted to be carried.

They were much happier going down with Daddy on the smaller of the hills. That was a pretty long day and lots of fun but also very tiring!