Sledding hill

So we have this HUGE sledding hill in our front yard. It's awesome. It's the one thing I am reeeaaallllly going to be missing when we move to our new house. It's the one thing I've been having trouble with letting go. It's so awesome to be able to take the kids out and go sledding for a half an hour, without having to go out in the car and drive to an actual sledding or tubing hill. Usually, if it's not too cold, we're out in the afternoon (in the winter) sledding down on our tubes, toboggans, or crazy carpets.

So I thought I'd really miss the hill until today at 1:30.

We were getting ready to go out to a skating birthday party. Ian was getting the kids dressed in their snowsuits in the kitchen and I was just grabbing something from Mason's room. All of a sudden I heard a huge rumble and thought that the sleds were crashing down outside (the sleds are on the outside wall of Mason's room). I went back out to the kitchen to ask Ian if he had heard that sound. He hadn't but then saw that we had no power. He ran downstairs to check the panel but saw all was fine. I told him that it might be a good idea to check outside since I heard something out by Mason's room (the hydro meter is there too). He went out and this is what he saw.

A silver Honda Civic had crashed into our front yard, onto the sledding hill. He was trying to back out of the snow.

Ian ran down the hill to check if the driver was OK. Ian said the man (around 50) seemed completely out of it - drunk.

Ian came back in to call 911 (and lock the door - hey, you never know!). 911 told him to write down the license plate and they'd send a cop out. Then, Ian went back to the man to tell him the cops were on their way. The man told Ian to call him a tow truck on his (the man's) cell phone. Ian's like "Uh no, I'll call from the house, thanks".

Meanwhile, I left with the kids for the birthday party (which we were totally late for at that point). Ian called me just 2 minutes later and told me the man left. He totally fled the scene.

The cops showed up and said they'd go to the man's house to see if he was there. Meanwhile, hydro came to fix the power outage, and a tow truck to pull the car out. A while later, the cop pulled up and asked Ian to "identify the suspect". Ian told the cop it was the same man.

All in all, quite an experience.

I can't tell you how thankful we are that our kids weren't sledding down that hill at 1:30 this afternoon. That today was a Saturday and I had no daycare kids sledding down the hill. Thank God no one was hurt in the accident. It's a miracle.

The man was obviously drunk. He didn't know what was going on and fled the scene on a guilty conscience. He was going fast enough to crash through the guywires of the hydro pole and to end up on our sledding hill. Who gets drunk at 1:30 in the afternoon, seriously!

I guess I won't be missing the sledding hill as much anymore.