First taste of the slopes

Tim and I have been talking about bringing Annie up to one of the mountain ski resorts so she can see what I'm talking about when I tell her that Daddy has abandoned us to go skiing in the mountains. Just recently we found out that Denver has it's own little free skiing area right here in town, so last weekend we packed up Annie's sled and headed out to Ruby Hill. Once we got there we found out that it is more like a large sledding hill with a portion roped off for snowboarders to monkey around on some jumps. We set Annie up in her sled (also her very first christmas present from Santa Claus!) and with safety rope in hand Dad proceeded to let her go down the hill while he ran behind trying to keep her speed down and....she loved it! After one or two test runs we decided to let her go on her own, the hill wasn't that big after all. It was really cool for me, since all I had to do was stand at the bottom and make sure she eventually stopped, and I got to see all the great faces and laughs the ride gave her. Poor Tim had to drag her up the hill about 50 times before her interest in sledding switched over to trying to catch the cute puppy dog that showed up.