A day well spent!

The sunset was painting beautiful pink hues on the clouds as I settled back in my seat for the two hour drive home.  As I sat looking out the window, my mind relived the events of the day.  We had left home at 8:00 and driven the two hours to the mountains to sled and snowmachine with some friends.  I remembered the tedious snowmachine ride from where our friends' travel trailer was to where we went sledding.  Caleb at first tried to ride in the pile of sleds behind the snowmachine, but because of the bumps, he kept spilling and we'd have to stop and wait for him to catch up again.  Finally, we all just piled on the snowmachine and I held the pile of sleds behind my back - a very uncomfortable position to say the least.  Then there was the first sled ride down the mile-long slope we had just come up.  I will admit that I wiped out quite a few times on the way down, but it was so much fun!

There was the time that we were riding the snowmachine up the hill, and it tipped over on me...  That kind of hurt, but I survived. :)  The other thing that scared me at first was when we'd go up these hills that I didn't think we could go up without flipping over backwards, and then as we'd get near the top, Mr. Ueeck would give the snowmachine a little more gas and bring the front end up.  My heart would jump into my throat, but I finally got used to it. :)  And then there was that inner tube.  Heather and I attempted to slide down this extremely steep hill on it several times before we figured out a way to stay on.  And then Heidi, Charity, Heather, and I piled on it so we could be pulled behind Mr. Ueeck's snowmachine...  And then he got too close to the other snowmachine and the inner tube popped, making those of us riding on it hit the ground pretty hard.

And then after supper we decided to go on a snowmachine ride way up into the mountains.  It was so much fun standing on the summits of several of them, where we could see for miles in every direction.  Oh, the beauty and glory of God's creation!  Then on the way back, getting the snowmachine that I was driving sort of stuck.  Mr. Ueeck came back to help, but on the way, he tipped his snowmachine into a creek.  Then, when trying to see which was the best way for our snowmachine to go, he buried his in snow that was up to my waist.  So we had to spend a little time digging it out.

I smiled to myself as I leaned back in my seat and closed my eyes.  It had been a wonderful day.  What would I do without my friends and family?  Suddenly, I felt myself being pulled forward as Seth slammed on the brakes.  My eyes popped open, and I saw a moose crossing the road just in front of us.  Just then her baby started crossing the road as well.  I could hear our tires squealing as we skidded to a stop just inches from the moose's back legs!  God had protected us once again!  As we began driving again, I again thought about the day.  Yes, we were all very sore, sunburned, and exhausted, but it had definitely been a day well spent!