After another frustrating 30 minutes, we piled back into the van and drove directly to the store and picked up these babies. They are Swedish Snowracers.
With a peanut butter and jelly in hand, I worked through lunch to assemble the snow racers.
They have steering, brakes, and are even stout enough for an adult to hop on the back as a passenger. After Janet rode down with Madeline, she said it was both a blast and an act of faith trusting that her little girl knew what she was doing.
Another nice feature is a retractable pull cord making them perfect for pulling kids up hills and along snow covered trails. I have to say that pulling two kids up a hill is a labor intensive activity.
After taking Janet and a worn out Lucy home, the older kids and I went exploring and found some great sledding hills just down the street. The area we went is a park with trails and hills galore. There were people on cross country skis, some walkers, others on horses, and a few families with kids on sleds like ours flying down any slope that could reasonably be called a sledding run.
We probably spent 4-5 hours outside sledding and look forward to many more hours this winter and beyond.
