Post by: Jamisjockey on December 10, 2006, 04:52:27 AM
A) she felt guilt for losing my camera
B) she wanted to make sure I got christmas pics of the kiddies
Took ES (Evil Spawn, part of my campaign of world domination) number 1 to a local tubin' park, where they gouge the adults for exorbient fees to drag you up the hill so you can take 5 second runs down the hill....but ES#1 had a freakin' blast....
Younger brother accompanied us
video:
Post by: K Frame on December 10, 2006, 06:27:53 AM
ES1 had better get used to the east, where snow is rarer and rarer...
It's also pretty flat here.
Post by: Jamisjockey on December 10, 2006, 07:01:14 AM
Post by: El Tejon on December 10, 2006, 08:10:32 AM
Do kids still use those plastic saucer things? Those were great either down a hill or behind a car.
Post by: Jamisjockey on December 10, 2006, 09:01:27 AM
Good times.
Do kids still use those plastic saucer things? Those were great either down a hill or behind a car.
Do kids still use those plastic saucer things? Those were great either down a hill or behind a car.
Yeah plus alot of plastic ones that are long like a traditional sled.
Post by: crt360 on December 11, 2006, 01:05:19 PM
Good times.
Do kids still use those plastic saucer things? Those were great either down a hill or behind a car.
Do kids still use those plastic saucer things? Those were great either down a hill or behind a car.
What about the magic carpets? When I was a kid we had these cheap, heavy green plastic things (basically a 2' x 3'-4' sheet of thick, flexible, indestructible stuff with two holes cut in the front to hold on to) that would smoke any tube, sled, or world cup skier down a mountain. We spent many hours after the slopes closed, climbing up lower blacks and blues and rocketing uncontrollably down the mountain. Here in Texas, winter fun pretty much peaked with an iced over street on a steep hill. All the neighborhood kids would show up with cardboard boxes and ride down until the boxes were just ragged sheets of cardboard and most of the ice had worn off the street. Some kids would bring skis, trash can lids, wagons, Big Wheels . . . I even remember a kid on a Tonka truck. It was like open day at the local drag strip. Man, I wish we had cheap video cameras back then.
Post by: charby on December 11, 2006, 01:25:32 PM
As a kid we used to use old plastic swimming pools, you could get 5-6 kids in the pool and got like a striped ape down the hills. I grew up on the mississppi river so we never had a shortage of nice steep hills in the bluffs.
I heard stories about people who would pull a car hood such as one off a something from the late 40's early 50's behind a car/truck out in the county. I guess it was fun until the hood came in contact with a bridge or driveway culvert.
Post by: cosine on December 12, 2006, 05:10:21 PM
Post by: AmbulanceDriver on December 13, 2006, 12:27:29 PM
Or when my brother and I were piled onto an innertube, being pulled behind our pastor's van while doing cookies in a snowy/icy parking lot.....
Post by: doczinn on December 13, 2006, 04:36:42 PM
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We hit the first jump and ended up doing a remarkable impression of bowling pins......
Calvin? Is that you, Calvin?