The Crusher

Last weekend in sub-zero temperatures Adam got the opportunity assignment to go camping with his scouts. Yes, camping.  The scoutmaster around here is die hard and the scouts don't miss their once a month campouts for anything, especially a little snow and a "bit" of cold.   They went to a hot springs so it was fun to sit in the hot pools for a couple of hours in the evening, but that didn't help them much during the -7 degrees temperatures that night.  There was a bathroom facility that was heated near their camp site and more than once Adam found the boys huddled in the bathroom sitting on the floor (ewww!).  They all survived and had fun, but Adam did admit that he doesn't remember the last time he was that cold.  Next month is Klondike and I can already tell he is super excited.

You know, I'm kind of glad I was never a scout.  Just sayin'.

In the winter here are 2 kind of people in this great state of ours--skiers and non-skiers.  Adam and I are in the non-skier group.  We've both been skiing before (back in the 90's) and yeah, we get how it can be super fun, but we just can't get over the amount of money it takes to be in the skier group.  In my mind I see it like this: we can take our kids skiing all winter and enjoy the family time everyone raves about, OR we can use that same money and pay for their missions in the future.  I choose to pay for the missions. It's that darn practical side that I have.  Some of my siblings call me cheap, I prefer "fiscally responsible." ANYWAY, our good friends and neighbors host a big ski party every year and every year Adam and I would toss around the idea of taking the kids skiing for the first time, but then we would decide not to because of the cost and the fact that we didn't want them to actually like it. Well, the kids are getting older and this year when our friends invited us to the ski party the kids definitely had an opinion, they wanted to go!  So, Adam, Britton, Jenna, and Korinne headed off to the local ski resort to experience this thing we call skiing while I stayed home with Jameson. I sent the camera with Adam, but he didn't remember to actually use it.  He hadn't been skiing himself since 1995 so he was busy trying to remember while helping 3 newbies. The verdict? The kids LOVED it! 

Oh crap.

Jenna exclaimed, "I want to go back and do it again really soon, Mom!" I smiled and said, "I guess that's a good thing to start saving up your money for." Her smile dimmed a little when I told her how much it would be for her to go again "real soon".

I know, just put "ski dream crusher" on my list of faults. Boy, this list is starting to get kind of long.  . .