Sunday Ski!

On the way to my parents' we checked out another trail with the kids this week. It started out a little dicey. We had just popped all the skis on when Lovey decided she didn't want to go anymore. I ignored that until the screaming started piercing holes through the trunks of the trees & threatened her with removal of Harry Potter bedtime story privileges and that saved the rest of the forest!and then there was Sweetie! She'd brought two of the same mittens and although I found a different mitten (ie it didn't match) that fit the hand she'd forgotten, it just wouldn't do. Instead she wore the ones she'd brought with one being on the wrong hand and then tried to grip her pole. Guess what? not so easy. Suddenly she didn't want to ski anymore. Meanwhile, Honey has secured the lead position and zoomed off into the distance, never to be seen again. (well, til they turned around and met us on the way back). Then she & Lovey got racing down the hills and were loving the fast pace.


Once Sweetie got going, she loved the "high speed" parts as she called the downward slopes. Since none of us know how to slow down, turn OR stop, I was a bit apprehensive! Luckily we never met anyone coming the other way & we made it back to the car intact and with functioning eardrums. :)))