Sledding Sunday

Today at the age of 42 Tattoo Man embarked upon his first ever Sledding session!!

I am pleased to report that he had a Ball, but not before some SERIOUS Ball ache!!!

For weeks the media coverage of the Riverview Sliding Hill has been intense, almost too much to bear at times, so we finally decided to check out what all the fuss was about & headed over the river Hill bound....

Not as easy to find as we first thought, we drove around in circles for approximately a half hour, stopping several innocent pedestrians & a cable guy, before eventually finding the over publicized & (you guessed it) CLOSED, Hill!!

Talk about pissed off. After spending quite some time driving around like Morons looking for this place, a place we had hyped almost as much as Riverview Council, we now had to contend with a 9 year old who's day of fun looked to have been brought to an abrupt end & who was making all the appropriate noises to make sure we knew it!!

In an attempt to appease our daughter we headed for McDonald's (it always has a calming almost hypnotic effect), where we decided over some fries to take a swift drive by Centennial Park in Moncton, to see if there might be something interesting occurring there............a stroke of genius as it so happened.

Not only was there a fabulous Sledding Hill (or 2!!) but music, pond hockey, free horse drawn sleigh rides & free Tim Horton's Hot Choc & Donuts, but there was a plethora of Monctons Wildcats ( seemingly a MUST for any occasion if you are in grade school)!!

We had managed to turn a day of mindless driving & annoyance all around into (& I quote) 'The Best Day Ever'.....

Tattoo Man, Myself & Shakka had a scream hurtling down the hill on a $10 Wal Mart sled, often landing in a crumpled heap at the bottom, only to be landed on by 4 & 5 year olds that had mastered this sport so well they looked in disgust as we lay there giggling, soaking wet & in the way!!

Shakka rounded up several groups of hockey players & a Mascot for photo opportunities, I did something I hadn't attempted since the age of 9 & Tattoo Man achieved a first!!

At the beginning of the day I was so freaking annoyed with Riverview & their Council I was ready to write to the newspaper & make a call or two to the Mayors office, however now I want to thank the Mayor & his Co-Hort's for their monumental fuck up!!

Thanks to them we had an awesome day at Centennial Park in the City of MONCTON, not on a pissy little hill in the far reaching (& not very well signed) corner of Riverview.