Annual Soldier's Hollow Adventure

It's become a Peery-Fox family tradition to go tubing at Soldier's Hollow. It's one of my favorite Christmas events! We start with a deluxe lunch at the Dairy Keen in Heber. They have great burgers, fries, and shakes. We had plenty of shakes since they accidentally made them small when we ordered large. So we ended up with two of each flavor! The kids love the food and the model trains that chug all around the restaurant. It's a short drive to Soldier's Hollow--site of the cross-country races during the Salt Lake winter games in 2002. During the summer there is a golf course there, but during the winter they groom the hill into a fantastic tubing adventure. After checking in and gearing up in the lodge, we head to the hill. Each person gets a tube and then we stand in line to get pulled up the hill. The back of this photo shows some of this: My favorite part of tubing is sitting back while being towed to the top! Then we either race each other down, or hold onto each other's tubes and go down in a huge group. The heavier the group, the faster you go!

Christien, Parker, Adam, Emily, and Sam

Alex, chillin' in the tube

Hazel

Parker

Back in the lodge we take turns watching the little ones (under age 3) and sipping hot cocoa.

When our fun was over we went to Grandma's house for an impromptu sleepover!