Snow Day

“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened” --Rachel Cohn

"Winter" in the midwest so far had consisted of a slight dusting of snow that barely covered the green grass underneath it. This clearly did not satisfy my undying need for the fluffy white stuff. So you can imagine how excited I was to open my WeatherBug App and read that there was a winter storm warning for Boulder County with a minimum of a foot of snow expected and upwards of 2 feet. I couldn't sleep Thursday night because I was SO excited to wake up and see the snow. I'm pathetic, and I know that. Whatever. It was WELL worth the wait, let me tell you. I woke up to around a foot of snow at 9 and there was no end in sight.

So I talked to Danyell and devised a plan for sledding later that afternoon and informed Danny of the plans and we were ready to go with a case of beer and some farm tire tubes.

The video does a pretty good job of showing you exactly what we did with our day. What it DOESN'T depict, however, is how much we hiked to get to where we were sledding. Another thing it doesn't show? The ridiculous slope we had to walk back up after sledding down, in a foot and a half of fresh powder. Midwest girl couldn't hang, kids. They talk about getting your sea legs? I need to do some work to get my mountain legs.. and lungs for that matter. The powder at the end of the run was well worth it though. Final snow count: 22.6". Awesome.

Here's the video from our Snow Day '12.