Our Little Snow Bunny/Kamakazi Skier

Caleb's been dying to see the snow so we decided to take a little trip to Cloudcroft, NM for a little tubing and skiing. Yesterday we got in around noon so we decided to just go do a little sledding. John and I definitely got a workout going up and down the hill. I had never really been downhill sledding so it was a new experience for me too. John took Caleb down the first time on a tube and Caleb enjoyed that. Then I got a little ambitious on our first run down and went all the way to the top and ended up scaring Caleb a bit (and me too). But, we finally got him going down on his little saucer and he liked that. We weren't able to take a ton of pics because we took our small camera and it ran out of batteries, of course, not long after we got there. When we were through sledding I took a few pics of Caleb with the good camera. I wanted some shots of him with the snow coming down. It was so cute because he normally doesn't really want to pose, but I told him we were going to take a few pics and he just started hamming it up. He smiled, and tried to catch the snowflakes on his tongue and said "I love this place!" Now that's some great justification for driving 10 hours one way to play in the snow!

Today we decided to hit the slopes. Unfortunately for us, the entire elementary and middle school from Cloudcroft were there too. Really. We got a bunny slope pass for me and Caleb but the line was so long to go up the little tow rope that John ended up pulling Caleb up the slope so that he could ski down to me. Our little kamikaze skier wanted to go FAST, but never figured out to stop, so me or John would have to intercept him on the way down. Luckily the kids left at 2 so we pretty much had the bunny slope to ourselves after that. Caleb had great balance and seldom fell, but he just never figured out how to stop. He's going to have a lesson tomorrow so hopefully they can help him learn to stop so that we can do something other than the bunny slope tomorrow.

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