Who would have thought our child who severely dislikes sledding in our own backyard would have braved the "big hill" at French Park?? Today was a great sledding day...30's, no wind, lots of sun and a beautiful blue sky. So, we met up with Chad and Aleksandra today after swim lessons to go sledding at French Park. We met at 10:45 and thought if we got 20 minutes out of them it would be a successful adventure. We were there until 12:30! The boys LOVED it. And when I say love I mean CRAZY LOVE. It wasn't busy at all so we could sled as much as we wanted.
Luke could not get enough of it. He went down the little hill with everybody and on his own, he ate lots of snow and even went down the BIG hill with Daddy and Blake. I wasn't sure how well that would go, but he was grinning from ear to ear and saying "whoa"! He would say "choo choo" sometimes too. It was pretty cute.
Blake and Aleksandra had a blast too. They both loved the little hill and went down the big hill with Daddy's a couple of times too. Blake was so much braver than he is at home. I'm sure having a friend helped, but I was so proud of him. There was only one tearful moment when a boy on sled came down the big hill as Blake was at the bottom of the little hill...seemed like a minor collision but Blake did end up with two bruises on his face. He rallied after 5 or 10 minutes and was back in action!
And yes, even I went down the big hill...once. For the record, it's pretty steep and essentially a solid sheet of ice. I nearly took out one little boy at the bottom, but pulled out some creative steering at the last minute. We all had a great time and can't wait to go again!
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