I think the saying goes something like "out of the frying pan and into the freezer'. It's been like that for us since our return from the D.R. Things got cold around here, really cold. And since we had lost so much snow after the X-mas thaw and the temps were so low, we had few options for good winter recreation, except to skate.
The Ganz Pond up in Happy Hollow is the perfect pond. And a great place to get inspired by little hockey players.
Cal & Hazen used the double decker crate to get started, but they insisted they didn't need it after a few minutes:
And a when the temperatures got a little more reasonable, a very important moment happened in the Abbott Family Annuals of Skiing. Hazen & Cally are riding the lift without an adult! It's crazy, I know. But it is liberating in so many ways. This means that John or I can ski on our own with the kids at Smuggs (b/c there are only double chairs there).
But they do still like us enough to ride the lifts with us. They aren't too cool for us, yet:
But it also means that john and I get tor ride lifts together:
