The second weekend in February we went Snow tubing. We planned this trip mostly for Bradley as something fun to do for his Birthday instead of blowing money on a party. We also needed an excuse to see the cousins. We don’t get to spend too much quality time with them even when we are visiting Maryland.
We all met at Granddad's house on Friday. His mountain house as the kids refer to it.
Saturday morning we set out for our tubing adventure.
Easton was not liking being all puffed up in his warm clothes so he must have been mad at me and refused pictures.
This place was a little backwoods and countrified. Its name “Moonshine Mountain” didn’t give it away or anything either. Turns out this place is making a killing with the whole ‘enter at your own risk’ and ‘assume your own liability’ clauses. They make the tubing hills pretty fierce. Just by looking at it we opted to not take the three youngest kids in the family (originally I thought they could ride with us and it would be a complete family fun day ) I was completely bummed but we saved money by half of us not going. Devon and I took the kids while the dads stayed back and watched the little kids and took them on a bounce house and dinosaur trail.
One Bradley Bear, going up!
And YES! It was super cool. We even came off the ground and got ‘air.’ Every time I did it again and thought I knew what to expect and I would still scream my head off.
There was a bridge that overlooked the end of the ‘slopes,’ I guess you would call them that. Thankfully, Kyndra took some pictures for me. I don’t have too many pictures because it was hard to tell who the tiny specks were at the top of the mountain and then she said we flew down too quick by the time she realized it was us.
We looked so silly but you flew even off the snow. They had to build a hill up on the other side to stop you because you went so fast.
There were so crazy statue animals at this place too. Did I mention backwoods?! ha-ha!
Later that night we sung Happy Birthday to Bradley. Aunt Devon brought him a brownie cake. We had no candles in the house so we used Q-tips. I don't know how I did not get a picture of that one. The more and more I write this post the more redneck I feel. I should just hurry up and finish.
He was very tired and confused at this gift but was not rude. He had a blank stare, was puzzled and said nothing until I explained “Aunt Devon asked me what to get you and I was trying to think of something practical not just a toy. I said flashlights since you are always using our emergency ones and it drives Daddy crazy. I said they are just for you and you can share if you’d like to play flashlight tag. His face immediate lit up and all the kids ran off and turned the lights off to play with them.
The kids also got to ride on the gator around the farm. This is always a fun exploration for them.
Here are all the kids tackling Uncle Billy.
We left Sunday morning to drive back home. It was back to school and work on Monday. I am glad the kids got to have a day off of school and have this adventure. Now they can say they have been snow tubing and loved it!
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