2.21.06

Category: dribblings

we are back from TN. it was a great time. the kids had a blast. i think their favorite part was the pool table in the chalet. pool tables make awesome baby-sitters. they wouldn’t leave it.
we went to the aquarium on sunday. it was pretty cool. i thought it was better than the one in new orleans.

i guess my favorite part of the trip was the White Trash Sledding (as mom called it). Flippy and i took turns hurling our bodies down the side of a stump-filled hill on a galvanized trashcan lid. the only bad part is the bottom of the hill (Suicide Hill) is an eight foot drop off onto the street. so you had to aim (note i did not say steer, for there was no way to steer the lid. you had to aim and pray.) for the woodpile, the tree, or roll off the lid in time to not plow off the bank to your most certain hospital injury.
we did this roughly 500 times.
the kids did it twice.
we thought they were the crazy ones not to have some fun on the “sled” but then we figured that hey, it is actually scary. and we are actually idiots.

we went back out two hours later and did it 900 more times, but by then the snow was icy crunchy and the sled gultches we had made were so slick and dangerous that we decided to make a new path. straight into the woodpile. it was fast. it was fun.
but now we both have bruises. mine’s green now! and also i’ve manage to hurt something in my shoulder/collarbone area. it mainly hurts if i bend over or lay down. i can still use my arm. but when i lay down it hurts so bad. what on earth could that be?
i hope it doesn’t screw up my awful bowling average.

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