Starting at the left going to the right, the top row of people: Alison in the red coat, Taylor also in red, Russel in Green, Tony in red on the right. Back to the left below Alison, left to right: Sable in the white scarf, Jen Ham in the very front, Jenny the cook in the brown, Heather in the bright blue behind Jenny, Caroline in the white, Peter in the gray-ish coat, Me in the bright blue, Jordan in the white coat with furry hat, Allie at the end in front of Tony. And Jimbo is taking the picture.
Last night we went sledding. JVL style.
We hiked down to the Jail (this site down the valley about a mile and a half that we take hay rides to or have lumberjack breakfasts at) in our gear hauling inflatable tubes (like the one Russel is holding up in the above picture). We get to the foot of the "hill" we were going to sled and realize that duh there is 4ft of snow on it. 4ft does NOT make for a fast ride or an easy hike up. This hill is about twice the height of the big hill on Mt. Trashmore. Hiking up to the top was probably harder then any 2k race I've been in. No kidding. It took everyone going down at least three times (and hiking back up) before the track was perfect. But it was well worth it; we sledded by the light of an almost full moon.
If you went down head first there was this bump where you'd get some air and flip over and if you were good could catch your tube midair, land on it, and head the rest of the way down.
Then we started making chains. We started out with a chain of oh only three people but by the last run we attempted to make one long chain of all 14 people. We only had six tubes though so we had multiple layers. It wasn't the fastest ride but it was definitely the most fun.
We headed back to the lodge and the fireplace in the dining room to make s'mores. The DR has one the biggest fireplaces I've ever seen. So we could fit about ten of us roasting marshmallows at a time.
We topped of our night of being kids by playing mafia. Basically you can't beat a night of sledding, s'mores, and mafia.
2 comments:
wow, i'm insanely jealous of you at the moment. i've been doing nothing but working, class, and sleeping. wanna switch for a few weeks or so?
thon is this weekend, so that should be amazing (and super exhausting...)
i think i'm going to nap now before playing with my little this afternoon.
not to be redundant, but i am waaay jealous of you after a long week of practicing 6 hours a day for my recital coming up. i think i'd much rather go sledding. lucky girl!
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