Chicago Winters – The Sunny Side Up

During winter break, my family and I usually catch up with my cousins out in California. In the course of our conversations, it never fails to come up that “Chicago is nice, but the winters are freeeezing” and “Chicago is no fun in the winters.”  I can understand how the single-digit temperatures may be daunting, but instead of letting winter get you down, I think one should embrace it. Once you do, you can see that winter is the best environment for many great pastimes.

My utmost beloved winter activity is sledding. There’s a big hill next to Soldier Field along the lake where my family goes to sled every year. We are usually joined by other kids, and we all race each other down the hill. This activity is simple, fun and free, and I look forward to it every year.

Skiing is also a great winter sport in Chicago. Many people think that Illinois is all cornfields (in fact most of it is), but just an hour’s drive north, there are pretty big hills that serve as a decent skiing course. The hills aren’t that challenging, but they’re a great deal of fun, and an enjoyable way to hang out with my family.

Another fond pastime for family and friends is ice skating. The Millennium Park ice rink is right down town and is beautiful, free, and has a movie-like background. Whenever I go there, I imagine myself gracefully gliding across the ice, with the sparkling city glimmering behind me. Now, in reality, I’m constantly falling and knocking into rails but my clumsiness doesn’t diminish the amount of fun I have.

There are also other things, also, like spontaneous snowball fights and winter walks. So, you see, Chicago’s winters aren’t that bad after all. The temperature might be freezing, and there might be gazillions of inches of snow outside, but this weather holds its own little ways to have fun, and makes Chicago’s winters exceptionally awesome.

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