We are very fortunate to live a block from a beautiful park....it has lovely walking trails, ponds, you name it....it also has a great hill for 'sleighing' - that's what they call it here. Now we brought along our Costco specials - the sleds that resemble boogie boards.....and quite honestly they rock...but the Germans have once-again blown me away with their engineering. I've attached a picture for all to see! So we head to the park......plastic sleds in tow.....and since we've seen all these crazy looking 'old time' wooden sleds we thought we'd try one out and picked one up for 40 euro. We certainly got a little attention with the plastic sleds....a lot of, "was das ist". We did a couple of warm up runs with the oldie but goodies...and then thought it was time to break out the wooden gem!
I'm fairly certain Noah will officially make the 'rodel' - luge team in the winter olympics - when I say this thing picks up speed...that is a major understatement.....this thing flies! Notice (from the picture above)....no breaks.....no steering mechanism.......no way to stop but put your feet down to slow down! We learned that a little late....but no trips to the krankenhaus. So we officially broke in the wooden sled....3 rosy-cheeked kinder, fully dressed for the elements flying down the hill.....
