Sledding at Staring Lake...

I figure I live in Minnesota, lets embrace it! We went sledding at Staring Lake in Eden Prairie on Saturday. I used to go sledding on this hill as a youngster myself, although as a parent it seemed about 100 times longer, more steep and very dangerous. I will say that in all of my sledding experience it was the fastest hill I've been on in a long time! The farther down the hill we got, the speedier our sled was going. We had to ride three to the sled (me, S & S) because it was just too dangerous for kids to go down alone. I actually didn't see any parents letting their kids venture this one alone. The only ones going "solo" were a few brave dads in the crowd!


Here is a picture of the hill... We honestly didn't "stop" until we were just about to that farthest tree line.

Here we are making the long hike back up the "mountain"

We ran into our friend Haddon and his family at the hill. We enjoyed playing together!


The first time we went back up the hill Shaeffer had to stop and take a break. The next 5 times I ended up hauling him up in the sled... My arms are feeling it!

We also had a little time to play in the park. It sure looked different with all this snow!