Two weeks ago we went for a ski trip to Canada. Thats the first time Milosh took ski lessons - and absolutely loved it. He was already familiar with the gear and just getting around - thanks to Anuj taking him to the mountains close to where we live. The ski lessons included some play time and some time to learn skiing. And milosh loved the classes and learnt so fast. He was completely fearless - did not worry about falling down, loved the speed - and was thoroughly enjoying. He learnt enough to be able to take the ski lift on the bunny slope, and ski down by himself, turn and stop exactly where he could join the queue to the ski lift again! It was amazing and unbelievable to watch him learn so fast! He loved skiing so much that we had a hard time getting him out of that place. He would forget eating, drinking, resting - and just keep doing it. He also wanted to go to bigger slopes - he would simply walk towards the bigger ski lifts.
Finally I had to trick him - because I could see he was tired and would not listen to me. So I took his skis out. In response to that he threw himself on the snow. I fortunately had a bar in my pocket and I quite literally used it as the proverbial "carrot" - and got him to follow me. After eating a few bites, he listened to me more - and I said we can even get hot chocolate inside - and that's how we got him to stop skiing!
On the way back, Anuj unfortunately had a fall and got injured. While we were dealing with figuring all that out, Milosh's key question remained "When am I going to ski again?"
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