Learn to Ski

Will decided he wanted to learn how to ski because several of his friends go every week.  We usually have hockey but this week the stars aligned.  We took him for a lesson at Bittersweet on Wednesday night.  His instructor was also a hockey player.  After two trips up the "Magic Carpet," Will graduated to the ski lift.  By the end of the lesson he had mastered the snowplow and "pizza turns" and was working on "french fry" turns.  His instructor said his skating skills definitely translated to skis. After his lesson, he stayed to practice for a few hours and ventured up and down several of the large hills.  On Thursday the boys had a half day, so I took him back up to meet up with a group of friends.  Despite only having three hours on skis, he was able to keep up with the pack and even went over a few jumps.  We had to leave to go to hockey practice and then he spent another 2.5 hours playing on his coach's backyard rink.  So much exercise but his legs weren't tired!  Since there was no school on Friday, we went back and he skied for 5.5 hours.  I ran into a lot of parents I knew so the time went by fast.