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Thomas

Why not? Looks fun to me!  Makes me want to go skiing.

so it looks like that where you are right now, Thomas?  I was just hearing on the news that it was snowing in the UP of Michigan!! 

And Mary Ann, I love to go skiing too!  cross country or downhill?

Skiing. 
How can you girls go skiing? 
I fall off skis.
Then my skis get all tangled up.

(Sorry, “ski” is a funny looking word.  I couldn’t stop typing it in various forms.)

I went to Chicago on Saturday with a group of girls on a charter bus.  To my delight it was snowing, GREAT BIG FLAKES!  It was SO beautiful!  BUT. Mid-afternoon, the snow turned to rain and it got downright NASTY outside, so we went inside a mall to spend the rest of the day.  We had a great time, and left around 6:30 (our time) which should have meant we would arrive home around 10pm.  At 10pm, we were still sitting on the interstate right by Chicago, and hadn’t moved in 3 hours!  Apparently the roads were too icy for semis to get up a hill and they kept sliding back down.  Salt trucks were dispatched and eventually got the mess cleaned up enough to make the roads safe, and I finally got home around 2:30am.  The snow is beautiful, but I think I can wait a few more weeks to have it at home.

I’ve only been skiing once in my life (also the only time I ever saw snow!), but when I went last year, I absolutely LOVED it.  To answer Sputnik:  Downhill I guess?  I stayed on the same mountain the whole time.  I really hope my youth group goes again this year. If they do, I’ll have to make an effort to practice falling on my butt.  I wasn’t too good at that last year and got into some weird situations.  It was great!! 

Nancy, I’m with you on the skiing thing.  I’ve been one time and I spent way too much time on my behind to ever want to go again! 
This is what I woke up to this morning:

These were taken from my front porch.