I took the kids sledding this morning.
They've been bugging me and Cate for a sledding trip all season. Our sledding opportunities are fairly limited by sunlight and school hours, and by, frankly, our own lack of desire to take the kids sledding. That's because everyone loves to go down hill and nobody loves to go back up.
This morning was the harmonic convergence, however. I woke up in a good mood, though maybe not overly rested. It was warm today, and dry, so we weren't going to get snowed or rained on and we had 40-degree temperatures or so.
We had four people and three sleds, but then again, Colleen isn't ready to go sledding alone. Elizabeth and Robert, though, definitely are! See the video:
Now, like most sledding trips, this one seemed doomed to disaster. But it wasn't until our last trip down the hill that we stopped courting it and it found us.
Silly us. We decided we would go down the hill three sleds abreast, starting from the top of the hill. There are two sledding runs, with a tree and a stump in the middle. I found us drifting toward the left, toward the tree, and tried to slide us even further left to get around it. But, well, not so much. All three of us hit the tree, and hit it hard. I twisted to try to take the brunt of it and I flipped over the stump. So did Elizabeth, landing square on her back in pain. Robert lost a boot but quickly gave me a thumbs-up.
Elizabeth has a nice big scrape on her back and another one near her elbow. Robert has a scrape and a bump on his forehead. My tailbone and right arm are a little sore.
Colleen wasn't affected -- we didn't take her down on that run. I needed an arm to hold onto her when we went down the hill and that didn't mesh with our plan.
But we had a great time. Next time we'll choose a less-challenging hill.
Maybe.
5 comments:
No less challenging hills! That's the one we took as kids. There is another one, though, in the farmstead over by the rose garden.
Agreed. It was good enough for us. it's good enough for them. I remember the first go at that hill getting run over by a toboggan full of Kueppers. And another time running into the tennis courts. And I turned out okay-ish.
For those unfamiliar with the hill, the tree we hit was the one the kids pass at the five-second mark in the video.
I was a bit more concerned by the passing cars at the bottom of the hill than by the trees.
Ahh. Don't worry, it takes a lot of effort to get that far. Also a slight incline before you would get to the street.
There were a couple of tracks that led that far, though. :)
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