Just a fantastic day out on the slopes for Mt. Abraham's 50th anniversary party (the four of us skied the whole day, both mountains for 20 bucks total). Here's a few things that I've learned about teaching skiing and skiing with little kids
- Before skiing with any such whiny three year old, downing 1-2 microbrews in the lodge is a must.
- Never eat lunch at noon.
- the ski harness is probably the best invention on the planet (even though it's really hard on the knees, it saves your back)
- bribery with candy......it's good stuff
- be sure to eat the worst food possible even though your brought your own healthier food (ie red hot dogs, pizza, brownies) and wash it down with another microbrew at snack time
- with little kids it takes 1-1.5 hours to start enjoying it after you get there and it takes 45 mins to an hour to prepare to leave
- Just let them sleep on the way home, even if it makes them go to bed later than they usually do.
- With older kids, it's good to let them develop A LOT of confidence before they take even one fall on a harder trail.
- If you just get 1/2 of a good fast run down (because you were thinking of yourself for one millisecond and you allowed yourself to speed ahead of them) before you have to pick up a crying kid off the ground, then it was a good day.
2 comments:
Remember well what that was like.... Had a really good laugh out of this post :o)
I can remember when GRandpa and I
took all the kids skiing. It seemed
almost every weekend in winter. One
time it was 4 below and I wasn't too excited to go but Gtandpa said
it would be good for them. Fortunately the heater in the car wouldn't heat so we had to turn back home. I silently said "Thank you God" We usually took the winter
vacation and stayed at a friends place on the February vacation. Fun times.
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