TUBING!!!!! (Winter "sports" rock!)

A few weekends ago we went up to Schweitzer (the ski resort just a few minutes North of town) to go "tubing"... Tubing is AWESOME!

You get a tubing pass (for like $10) and then you get a giant inner tube, and you get to ride it (seriously like a hundred miles an hour - or at least it feels like it) down a groomed slope with banks and twists and turns. The best part is when you get to the bottom - - no more towing your own tube up the monster hill. You just sit down on the tube and a friendly mountain guide clips your tube onto a cable which pulls you back up the hill as you sit back and enjoy the ride. So you do this over and over again, getting more and more brave each time.

We took Landin with us (as Mazzy is too small of course, and Ryder just missed the height requirement), and went with a bunch of friends and their kids. We had such a blast. As I said, you get more and more brave each time, especially as you begin to trust that you and the tube are not going to fly over the edge. By our last few runs we were going down 4 or 5 at a time (four of us on tubes clutching on to one another to make one giant tube monster).

It was freezing cold, but we were having so much fun, we didn't notice until we were packing up to head home. What fun!