Snow tubing

We went Snow Tubing the other weekend in the Poconos.  Piece of cake drive up there and then three hours of tubing. Tons of fun.

This next picture made me laugh because for anyone who kept up with "Avett, come on out" pictures, this picture is eerily similar to the final one we made (they will all be posted as a separate blog post soon.)

 

 It was actually us walking through the underground tube under the road to get from the parking lot to the tube area.

 In order to get to the top of the hills, you have to ride up a conveyor belt on a mighty-steep angle, for the first time ever feeling like a piece of food at a grocery store.

 Once we got up there, we all took an individual tube down the first run.

 Then we were headed back up the conveyor belt.

 We sat around on the tubes, allowed to link up to three tubes together at a time.

 An action shot of Muddy linked up to my tube.

 As the sun started to warm things up, the slickness of the snow got more slushy, which made it hard to scoot oneself as easily to get moving.

 Cool action shot of Addie hitting the ledge on the downhill.

 We got to ride double tubes too.

 Muddy was really having fun!

 Look at the wind whipping through her hair and her lift ticket!

 Action shot of Brian.

 This was when all five of us decided to race each other in individual tubes.  That's Brian to the bottom right, and Addie to the left.  I'm clearly already at the bottom, and that tube half-way up the hill is poor Benjamin, who once the snow got slushier  his weight wouldn't take him any further down the hill.

 Eventually he just laid back and gave up.  He had to walk down the hill.

 "Call me Brian, I claim these tubes in the name of tubing."

 Here's another run.

 Looking adorable.

 Waiting for tubes at the conveyor belt.

 I gave Brian a hard time about the fact that I filmed the whole and there were no pictures of me. So he indulged me once, and I had to ham it up!

 Just lounging around.

And our final ride down the hills.  We ultimately let them go down head first (paranoid of trauma, hey I work in the children's hospital, ok?). Look how uncomfortable Ben looks laying there.  We had to scoot him up so his face was closer to the front.
Overall a really fun trip!! We will definitely go again!