SLEDDING

After being inside for about two days and not doing much of anything besides eat we decided to hit the hill today. WE have a ton of snow but last night some rain fell and iced everything over. We arrived at the hill and as we walked up the backside Ron took note of all the broken sleds along the path...must be a bad sign. Well, turned out we could hardly make it up the back of the hill let along walk along the top. Many people were just crawling on all fours just to get around-funny to see. Brayden had a blast, he loved going down the hill with Uncle David on the saucer-although his was not too sure about trying to make it to the woods...bears live there you know. Well, we actually managed to have a lot of fun, regardless if we could walk or not. Our main goal was to avoid the jumps..not a good sign when the snow is discolored with blood on the down side of the jump. Brayden made it down with out wiping out, although he did lose a boot about half way down on one of his runs. Of course we decided to do some crazy rides, mostly resulting in snow up the boots, cold behinds or bruised bodies. Ron, Sharon and I loaded up on the toboggan and took off . Bad thing was that Sharon decided to fall of half way which I didn't realize and so I kept hanging on to her feet, needless to say she made it to the bottom but not on the sled, just was dragged behind for most of the way on her hip. Ron then convinced me to layer up on the runner sled, I should have know with him driving...although he blames me for leaning the wrong way. Anyway, it resulted in us going over a jump, I think you could hear the air come out of both our lungs when we landed. Sounds crazy but we all had a good laugh, and as long as we made it back with out any major accidents it was a great memory!