LUKE-THE BULLET-COURTS

We went sledding today with our friends Brandon and Saskia and their little guy Hugo.  Playing in the snow is a new thing for these Atlanta boys, and they are loving it!  We followed Brandon and Saskia to a huge sledding hill up in the Alps, and schlepped the kids up a giant hill.  We had a great time until Luke went flying past Chris at the bottom of the hill and almost clotheslined himself with a ski-lift cable.  Chris said he had to have been going close to 30 mph.  Phew.  After that, we called it a day and headed in to get the boys some hot chocolate.  Chris and I had a Maisgold brew to calm our nerves.  To be honest, it would have taken a 6 pack to actually calm my nerves, but I enjoyed those 12 ounces, and it did help to take the edge off!  Driving home we passed the ski jumps where this years Gold Medalist at the Vancouver Olympics practices...we were sledding in his hometown!  After watching Luke zoom down that hill on a sled on the ground, and praying "please lay down, please lay down" as I watched him zoom (laying down) under that cable, I wonder to myself how the mothers of those ski jumpers can take it!