Skiing

Abbie shares her dad’s love of skiing, and he can’t be happier since this means he gets to spend most weekends on the mountain.

This past weekend, as dad was away, I took her to her lesson and spent the afternoon with her, letting her show me some of the trails.

It’s a very humbling experience when my Grade 1 child takes me on hills that she finds boring and I have a hard time to keep up with her.

She thought it was hilarious when after letting her pick the trail for our final run, that I chose to take off my skis when I came to the final steep hill deciding that I would rather slide down it (it was too steep to walk) on my bottom and wound my pride a bit,  then take the very high chance that I would hurt myself a LOT if I attempted to ski it and crashed into the trees.  (She patiently waited for me at the bottom.)