Snow Job
“He seemed to enjoy skiing with his seven-year-old nephew as much as or more than he enjoyed skiing with his thirty-something brother and brother-in-law.
Charles, who had just graduated to the use of ski poles this trip, was nearing the end of his restriction to the green slopes anyway. He was as natural an athlete as his father and uncle seemed to be, and it was clear that within a few years he would be skiing circles around al of them.
Except, Elyce thought, he probably wouldn’t be skiing anym...ore by then. He would be snowboarding—a sport the older Nashes had not embraced but one the newest family members were al clamoring to learn. The two older girls had actual y started the previous year, and were already zipping around at alarming speeds on their boards and insisting on the fashionably baggy apparel and elaborate, colorful fleece hats so in vogue with the snowboarding set.
They had skied the first day under duress, but abandoned the old-fashioned sport for their new passion once their parents al owed them to.MoreLess
Charles, who had just graduated to the use of ski poles this trip, was nearing the end of his restriction to the green slopes anyway. He was as natural an athlete as his father and uncle seemed to be, and it was clear that within a few years he would be skiing circles around al of them.
Except, Elyce thought, he probably wouldn’t be skiing anym...ore by then. He would be snowboarding—a sport the older Nashes had not embraced but one the newest family members were al clamoring to learn. The two older girls had actual y started the previous year, and were already zipping around at alarming speeds on their boards and insisting on the fashionably baggy apparel and elaborate, colorful fleece hats so in vogue with the snowboarding set.
They had skied the first day under duress, but abandoned the old-fashioned sport for their new passion once their parents al owed them to.MoreLess
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