Sledding masters

Geesh, who would have thought that we'd have three different sledding trips this visit?!  All of the forecasts told us to expect a white Christmas and so much snow.  As Christmas drew closer, the forecasts didn't quite hold true, and we were beginning to think that we wouldn't have any new snow at all.  The days after Christmas we had enough snow to go sledding.  Unfortunately with the snow came some bitter wind.  We decided to brave the temperatures anyway and went sledding at the park near my parents' house.  We decided to take Moki with us.  Well, his little puppy coat does not do a great job of insulating him and he was freezing the whole time.  We had him sipped up in our coats to try to keep him warm.  He'd get wiggle and hop out to go play, only to start shivering instantly and we'd wrap him back up.  We did that a couple of times.  

 

Meanwhile the rest of us went up and down that hill.  The snow was perfect for some quick sledding, but not too quick.  On one run, McKenzie hit a jump perfectly and flew through the air, only to land on an ice chunk and tear a gash in the bottom of the tube.  Oops!  

Kelton enjoyed cruising down on his stomach.  Daxton decided to try to snowboard down the hill and made it about halfway before he had to bail.  

So many fun runs!

As we were wrapping up we decided to make things more interesting and piled extra people on our sleds and made trains to slide down.   

Eventually the wind drove us back inside to warm up, but it was a very successful outing.

One of our best sledding excursions of the entire trip was when Jake invited us up to the dry farm to sled on their old radio flyers.  He and his family has the tradition of taking their radio flyers up to the dry farm and sledding down the main road.  Then they load up the sleds in the back of the truck, drive up to the top, and cruise down again.  It's amazing!  The run is super long and so you get a nice long ride.  

We also don't have to make the trek up the hill on our own legs.  

Even though it was a cold day, it meant that the snow wasn't melting and slow, which was great.  We squeezed in this adventure right before we hit the road for home and were able to get in about ten runs or so.  I can see how the Thurstons could make a full day out of it.  It was an absolute blast!