Skiing!

Nick went skiing for the first time! One of his old school buddies (we're talking back to preschool! Nick is the second from the left) went a few weeks ago to a local mountain (drive all of 50 minutes to Wisconsin and turns out there's a little hill!) and took lessons. $40 got you lessons, rental and lift ticket for the day. So we got the old boys group together and met in WI. Coop's mom and I decided to take snowboarding lessons while the boys took their lesson. $200 later we were on our way. Sigh.


Our 17 year old instructor tried his best but I still spent too much time on my knees and a$$. After our lessons I headed over to watch Nick. Rock star! He was so good! But when he saw me he realized he could whine a bit and stop lessons. There were only 15 minutes left so I thought no big deal. We took his skis off, sat down and watched the other kids. Til the other kids went up the chair lift and down the real mountain with the teachers. Nick was beside himself that he missed that part and we couldn't get his skis on fast enough to get him over there.



I figured if they were taking the kids over there that Nick was ready too. So we skiid on the bunny hill for a while and then tried the chair lift and big hill. Nick rocked! So solid! So later when he wanted to go down the "medium" beginner hill I thought "why not?" Well I found out why not half way down. Nick stopped and decided he wanted to go on the old hill. Uh, not happening since we're already half way down this one. I had traded my snowboard in for skis by this point, so I put him in between my legs and skiid with him holding onto my poles in front of us. Bad plan because we crashed. He lost a ski. I slid down the hill backwards as I called out "I'm coming bud!" All under the chairlift for their enjoyment. I worked my way back up to help him, but by that time ski patrol decided to come by. "Mam, this hill is a little big for the little ones." "I know, but he wanted to try it and I thought it would be ok." "Has he been skiing all day? The little ones get tired about now." "Yes, yes, it's our last run of the day and thought we'd try this one."

We still had fun. Season is over, but we'll be back next year. I don't know if I'll be on that snowboard again.