Saturday, January 24, 2009

Sledding Fun!

Yesterday we went on a sledding outing with our friend Mr. Reiche for Josiah's birthday. We have been wanting to try out this new hill we heard of recently but never had the opportunity, or the park was not open due to the harsh weather conditions until yesterday.




Heading to the hill.

I stayed at the entrance to grab some fast action pictures while everyone else headed up to the top and gave great exclamations of amazement as to how steep the hill looked...we soon found out how bumpy it was too!

The birthday boy went down first on the tube. We quickly realized that the tube was pretty much the only thing you could get all the way down on because of how bumpy the slope was!


Josh ended up outside his sled about half way down most of the time. Then Faith and Christianna would follow and the same thing would happen resulting in shouts of frustrations from them and laughter from us at the top because of how comical they looked! =)

Heading back up.

The view from the top. You can't see them but this part of the hill had the appearance of a mogul slope with all the lumps on it!

Christianna zooming down. She finally made it all the way down by finding a path that skirted the bumps.




The toboggan made a few runs down on the less used side of the hill.


Sorry Josh! You should have heard him afterwards though! He wanted to come back and bring all his friends...to experience the thrills of getting bruised I guess. =)


This picture was a chance capture. Check out the flying ball cap!!

They finally persuaded me to take a ride down. Unfortunately we were not allowed to use snowboards and I wasn't about to kill myself on the moguls so I took the "train" instead.

Taking a break from sledding we took a walk through the woods surrounding the hill to find the skating pond.
The birthday boy!






After a few more runs down the hill we headed on home...thankfully without any injuries to speak of then though today everyone is announcing their many found bruises! However, I'm sure we will be back for a visit again soon and bring some friends to share in the adventures at Suicide Hill!

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