Lola
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
All this talk of Dr. Suess on the Quote of the Day thread, got me thinking about skiing with my son when he was little. He's 17 now and would never sing with me on the chairlfit, but when he was between the ages of 5 and 8 he would.
We made up a song for ourselves that went like this:
Let's go skiing down the hill
in my new skis and boots I will
the first to the top
without any stops
we'll have fun skiing down the hill
Let's go skiing in the trees
just my Tyler Pugliese and me
the first to the top
without any stops
we'll have fun skiing in the trees
Of course, my son liked to ski in the trees as the edges of a trail. And then I remembered those terribly slow chair lifts around the bunny slopes, where we would sing (to the tune of This is the Song that never ends):
This is the chair that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
some people started riding it
not knowing what it was
and now we'll keep on riding it
forever just because
This is the chair that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends . . . .
Of course, the song never ends, which is part of the point.
Anyone else out there ever sing with you kids on the chair lift?
Or play games with them? There is always the popular "Pretend to be an Olympic judge rating skiers/boarders on the slope who have just fallen" game. "I'd give her an 8 but I'm sure the German judge would give her a 6!"
Ah, the memories . . . . :D
We made up a song for ourselves that went like this:
Let's go skiing down the hill
in my new skis and boots I will
the first to the top
without any stops
we'll have fun skiing down the hill
Let's go skiing in the trees
just my Tyler Pugliese and me
the first to the top
without any stops
we'll have fun skiing in the trees
Of course, my son liked to ski in the trees as the edges of a trail. And then I remembered those terribly slow chair lifts around the bunny slopes, where we would sing (to the tune of This is the Song that never ends):
This is the chair that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
some people started riding it
not knowing what it was
and now we'll keep on riding it
forever just because
This is the chair that never ends
it just goes on and on my friends . . . .
Of course, the song never ends, which is part of the point.
Anyone else out there ever sing with you kids on the chair lift?
Or play games with them? There is always the popular "Pretend to be an Olympic judge rating skiers/boarders on the slope who have just fallen" game. "I'd give her an 8 but I'm sure the German judge would give her a 6!"
Ah, the memories . . . . :D
