Stuck

Well last week we wanted to go back up to the mountain for more sledding FUN. We got there and started to have some fun when Tad decided that he should drive the truck closer to us so we wouldn't have to walk as far to get out. I said, "I don't think that is a good idea". He said, "Of course it is, we have 4 wheel drive". So he did. And he got stuck. This was about 4pm. It gets dark here at 5:30.

We spent about an hour trying to get ourselves out with our shovels and our wheels just kept on spinning. Finally, I got him to call our friend Aaron (he was too embarrassed to call his dad) to help us out. Then as I was talking to our sister in law, Joleen about possibly coming to pick us up, his dad overheard the conversation and asked if he needed to come rescue us. So Aaron was able to get us some tire chains at the auto store and Tad's dad stopped by and picked them up and headed up the mountain.

In the meantime, the kids were having fun drinking my hot chocolate and playing around. Paige was starting to get hysterical because her feet were cold (she refused to wear the extra pair of socks I gave her before we left). And little Darci was just in regular clothes because we don't have snow gear for her yet. This was actually the least prepared I've ever been on the mountain - usually I have towels and other things, but this time nothing. Derek was able to start us a little fire which he was really proud of. When the fire died out we huddled in the truck until Grandpa arrived to save the day. Of course he made Tad say over and over again that his truck was better than ours.

So the next day the funny part is that Tad found out his 4 wheel drive wasn't working because his hubs weren't locked in. Apparently he didn't think that he had to do that on our truck. So we had all that excitement, inconvenienced a lot of people, and could've saved ourselves a lot of time if he had just figured that out!! So maybe our 4 wheel drive works after all. I'm not going to go back up to test it out.