After the December robotics competition, the kids and I stayed overnight at Cassie and Nick's new house (which is super nice). We got the grand tour of their new digs and played with the boys. The next day Olivia, Owen, and I made a detour to "Snow Mountain" at Stone Mountain Park. This is an annual event where the park sets up a snow tubing track on the large hill in front of the mountain. The snow is manufactured, so it's really more like ice. That doesn't matter, though. The ice/snow may even help the tubes go faster (?). We have never been tubing, but it was so much fun. The tubes went down a lot faster than I thought that they would. They had narrow tracks for single or double tubes, and then there was a larger track for family tubes that could hold up to eight people at a time. We rode each several times.
We had a two-hour window in which we could enjoy the event, and we made the most of our time. While we were waiting in line to get our tubing passes, we saw one of the kids' friends from school and robotics. We ended up hanging out with their friend and his family. The kids liked having someone other than each other to play with.
In addition to the tubing hill there was also a snow play area. I think the kids liked this as much as the tubing. They dug in the snow, threw snowballs, and made a snow (ice) man.
We had a great time at Snow Mountain. We never get snow in our part of the state, and it was nice to be able to participate in a traditional cold-weather activity.
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