I think no phrase brings more joy to the hearts of young kids than SNOW DAY!
We had a rare one recently, and almost like magic, sleds materialized from closets and basements. A few kids went down this tiny hill, with about a ten foot drop. They still screamed with excitement.
But the main sledding spot around me was a place that’s been used by kids for generations. I used to take my kids there when they were litttle.
A nearby road has a wide median between its eastbound and westbound lanes, and for a long stretch there’s a wide and deep bowl inside the median, and it’s a great safe spot for sledding.
You can see kids and parents making the trek shortly after breakfast.
The youngest ones came with their parents.
But a lot of kids appeared to be on their own. I think by the time my kids were eight or nine they were free to go off on their own with friends so the grownups could sit around inside drinking coffee.
Snow day! Snow day! Look at them go!
I love it! Snow days are such happy days (for the kids at least).
Seattle public schools poo pooed all over snow days and now send the kids home with tablets for virtual learning. Not that we got any snow this season.
I think for a single day out of the blue they don’t bother with distance learning, since the first day inevitably has so many people losing their log in IDs, etc. If by some chance we had a week off, the plan is to require it.
Tell me about it, Sis. We haven’t had any really appreciable snowfall in something like two years. I don’t particularly want it, given my mobility issues, but (most) dogs love snow. Back when we had real winters and Better Half’s mother was still alive we’d take our previous dog up to Boston and she had a plastic saucer. It was Better Half’s from when he was a kid. We’d go to some hill, I don’t where it was, and I’d get on it with the dog and be pushed downhill. It’s a wonder none of us were killed. But it was very fun at the time.
…admittedly I mostly remember them as a thing I saw as a kid in france rather than anytime recently or anywhere else particularly…but the sleds/toboggans always seem to be quite “proper” when I see them broken out in the states…& I’m curious if these ever make an appearance?
https://www.toysense.ca/buy/aepdt-6740/pan-sled
…used to be you could pick ’em up at the equivalent of a .99¢ store or a corner shop or whatever & more than likely it’d break before you really wanted to go home…but the ride while they lasted was…well control generally didn’t get much of a look in & you never really knew which way you’d end up facing…but it was certainly fun the way I remember it?
I’ve definitely seen those, and even cheaper ones which are just a sheet of plastic with a hole punched in the top to hold onto.
i had a few of those wich i gave away during i think last years surprise march snowpocalypse….and a plastic sled i left on a table near the only hill in my local park with a note saying free to take have fun
im getting old… nobody left to sled with…. not so old i have new grand bodys left to sled with tho…..figure ill buy new ones then
Great photos! Thank you for sharing them.
We used to ride down the snowy bluffs along the Minnesota shore of the Missisippi River on cafeteria trays. The local ER got to know us by first names.