Tubing Time

 

 We finally got a chance to go tubing this year. We had planned to try to go when the aunts and uncles came up to ski but we just ran out of time and it was freezing and POURING snow! So one afternoon recently, we headed over to Wintergreen for just a couple of hours to tube. Rachel loved it. We went down a couple times and she asked me 1) Mommy when can we come back again and 2) Can we go lots of times, like 50 or 70?

I then explained we would go down as many times as we could before our tubing session time ran out. And so we did!
After I went down with Rachel a bunch of times, Brent took a turn going down with her too. Rachel quickly figured out that she liked Lane 2 the best-it was not so bumpy she said and that was the only lane she would go down. We also really liked the conveyor belt that hauled us and the tubes back up the hill. We certainly got to tube more times this way. Last time I tubed several years ago at a different resort, the tubes went on the conveyor belt and the tubers had to trudge back up the hill on their own. So this system at Wintergreen was really nice!

 

 Our littlest snow bunny is, of course, not big enough to tube yet. She thoroughly enjoyed herself walking in the snow, climbing around in the tubes and each of us took a turn pulling her in the level snow at the top of the tubing runs so she could "tube." She had a great time with this and we will blink and she will be tubing down the hill with her big sister.

 

 We had a great couple hours as a family together. We love living here in the mountains and feel so blessed to be able to enjoy these times as a family with all the mountain activities and adventures, like tubing, so close to us now!

Our Family, February 2013