I haven't skied for about 10 years (maybe more.) I love skiing, but got to the point in my life where I was so busy being a single parent and finishing school, that I never had time - though I did take Rebekah a few times and teach her when she was little.
Then I married Rick, and moved to Brooklyn. We didn't have a car, and the opportunity never presented itself .... it seemed each time we went to Utah in the winter I was pregnant, or had a nursing baby ... my knees got bad. There has just never seemed to be a good time.
Well, this year I decided it was about time my kids learned to ski. I took a bunch of Ibuprofen, ace wrapped my knees and headed off with Emily.
I got her a lesson to begin with. She had a shaky start ....
and a few falls!
But the teacher was sweet with her, and Emily always has a positive "can do" attitude.
Before long she was doing a great job!
She had a great day. I took my little camera - and didn't notice the smudge on the lens until later - ignore the blur in the middle of the picture!
After a positive experience with Emily, we bought her her own gear, and have been a couple more times. We hope to get a few family days in this season, and get better.As luck would have it, Rebekah's old gear fit Jacob, so he has had a few lessons too. He's not old enough for ski school, but can get private lessons, so we've been doing that. I take him up mid-week, when it's not so busy. Of course, this day (when I took the camera) we forgot his coat! His goggles also got stolen, we forgot Emily's gloves and Jane spent most of the time crying and banging on the door of the day care - to get in - because she was in the lodge with Rick and wanted me. We chalked that day up to experience, and bought a big "team bag" to keep all our gear together, and have planned to put Jane in the day care if we're there all together.
I don't have huge expectations for Jacob for this year, I'm just hoping he'll get some exposure, work out his balance, and have fun. Then next year, he should be a little ahead of the game when he starts.
Fortunately he thinks falling is great fun.
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I like snow as long as I'm not in it. Pictures like this make it seem quite nice ... Your kids seem to be very sporty.
Ruth, they do seem to be athletic, but it's more a matter of having WAY too much energy. If I don't have them in sports, they run like maniacs around the house trying to burn it off!
This is actually "fake" snow. We've had none this year, so they've been making it. Not "Utah quality" by any stretch of the imagination, but the kids don't know any different. The nice thing about it is that, the parking lot and roads are all nice and dry so it's very convenient to get there.
Kids always look so cute when they're learning to ski.
Tania, you have so much energy too!I think the reason young kids do well learning to ski is they have no comprehension of what could happen to them.Unfortunately I fell off the chair lift my first time - yep, embarassing- and have not had the courage since!
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