If you don't like the weather in Kansas...

...wait 5 minutes and it will change.
Two weeks ago, it got up to the upper 80s.
Last week, there was a tornado watch.
This Friday, it blizzarded (if that's even a word!). Hesston got about 8 inches of snow!
So yesterday, some of us were bored and stir crazy. Since we couldn't really go anywhere because of the icy roads, we decided to walk over to Mount Hesston. Mount Hesston is to Hesston kinda as Indian Rock is to Salina (at least when it comes to sledding). The people who go to HC who are Hesston natives say that Mount Hesston is a big pile of trash and junk that the city decided to cover up with dirt years ago so they could build a park next to it. They say there's entire cars under there. But what matters is that it's pretty high and really steep and makes for good sledding.
Being college students, we didn't really have any sleds. But that's ok. Being college students, we're also pretty ingenius. We found a wide variety of substitutes.

Things That Worked Well:
~the one actual sled we had
~the sled that we stole...er, borrowed...from the middle school kids who were also sledding there
~lids of those big plastic storage boxes (the kind that go under your bed or in your closet)

Things That Worked Fairly Well:
~a large cardboard box
~a plastic garbage can lid
~a large garbage bag filled with Styrofoam peanuts*

Things That Did Not Work:
~laundry baskets

*This was a very random addition to our sledding adventure. Donny found it in our mod right before we left and declared it his sled. He went down the hill on it once and it actually worked. Unfortunately, the bag ripped and shed most of its contents all over the hillside, making further experimentation with this "sled" impossible.