Snow and Tell
When it comes to fun, there’s nothing like being tangled up in skies, upside down, toppled over, face-first, fanny skyward, twisted up together with all your kids in a gigantic jumble of frozen tundra. This is really livin’.
“I’ll show you how this is done,” you can mutter into the avalanche. “Nothing to it, but to slip your ski up and over and then under and out, then sideways and longways, zappo, zingo. You”re back on your nose.” Easy as pie. (Suddenly, that makes a lot of sense as I NEVER, EVER have been able to make a decent pie.)
Today, we are off into the white unknown. After staying up late last night to prepare, trying on warm clothes, practicing our racing slaloms on the edge of the bathtub (that’s the only way we can see really good in a mirror) we are ready to hit the slopes.
A fabulous way to ring out the old year, if I do say so myself. I just wish we weren’t taking the dogs…
I will report back today, so long as we get out of the E.R. before nightfall.