Skiing

This weekend I went cross country skiing at the lime creek nature center. My mom, dad, sister, my sisters friend, this other weird girl, and I all went. It was the first time that any of us had ever skied(?) before. We were all pretty terrible at it and fell down a lot. They had a bunch of skis and poles for people to use at the nature center but there was a ton of people there so we had to wait a long time for our turn. While we waited we looked at all the cool stuff out there. We looked at all the stuffed dead critters and the birdies outside and all the cool nature junk. After that we drank some hot coco and made sugar cube houses.

There were also snow shoes that you could use but those didn’t look as fun so we didn’t try them. Once we got out there and had our skis on and what not they showed us how to ski. You just slide your feet and push with the ski poles. It took some time to get used to and we fell a lot. I would maybe like to try skiing down a hill or something next time because cross country skiing across the flat ground is kind of boring.

Once we were finished skiing we were all tired so we went and cooked some hot dogs and marshmallows over a fire. We sat around and looked at all the cool nature stuff some more. Before we left they had a door prize thingy. When we came in we had to write our name down and they put all the names in a hat and drew for prizes. Me and my mom both won a prize! She got some sunglasses that were pretty sweet and I got this awesome little bird that you squeeze and it makes a bird chirp noise.