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Andy and Martin's Antics

This weekend also afforded me the opportunity to engage in another activity I missed out on growing up in the South...sledding. There was a really nice sledding hill not far from the house we stayed in so on Sunday we all bundled up and headed out to the hill. The sleds were big enough so each couple usually went down together. There was plenty of snow but it was frozen so the ground was really hard...it wasn't the nice powder that should have provided a little cushion. I think I got more beat up sledding than skiing. Apparently there was plenty of sledding on the hill before we got there because someone had made ramps out of the snow, creating a couple of little jumps that you could ride the sled on. In addition to the little ones there was one big one...so OF COURSE Andy had to ride his sled over the jump. I will preface this by saying that Martin has taken over for Nick in the "egging Andy on" department. Except now, it's not just encouragement to do stupid things, but it comes with the promise of being photographed.

While we were in Louisiana we were swinging on the playground and Andy jumped off of his swing while it was still moving. This resulted in Martin laying on the ground in order to get the perfect shot of Andy in mid-air.
Andy of course had to swing higher and higher and perform this feat several times in order to get the perfect shot.


This scenario pretty much repeated itself with the sledding. At least this time Andy was wearing a helmet.
Martin laid on the ground next to the jump while Chuck pushed Andy in the right direction for added speed. And this was the result....


On the walk back to the house after sledding Andy commented that if he had been friends with Martin when he was a kid he would have gotten injured a lot more often. I agreed and then he added, "but I'm sure I would have had a lot more fun" I'm not sure this bodes well for the future. I have a feeling "Andy and Martin's Antics" will be a regular feature on the blog.

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