Snow Quest

With all this Winter weather that has been floating around recently we decided to go on a quest to find ourselves some snow. Thursday night it was cold and rainy here but there were places in town that saw snow flurries and just outside town there was snow that stuck overnight. Scott had to work Friday so we had planned to wait and go searching Saturday but when he came home from work early we packed up and started driving. According to the weather map it was still snowing in Mississippi so that is where we headed. I-10 to I-59 straight into the heart of MS. About an hours drive later there were little white patches on the ground and within an hour and a half there was enough to play in so we pulled off an exit in Hattiesburg, MS.

Scott saw the convention center which made the perfect spot for playing. Lots of empty parking lots to park and lots of open grassy places to play. We bundled ourselves up and went to play in the snow! We built a snow man who we named Clyde:

Chance liked rolling the little ball of snow all around to make a big ball for the snowman. We also had a mini snowball fight:'


In which mostly whoever had the camera got hit with lots of snowballs. Chance thought this was funny though because we didn't really have the right kind of gloves for snow his little snowballs kept sticking to his gloves, he didn't seem to mind.


Scott decided to man the camera while Chance and I made snow angels. We did all the quintessential playing in the snow things because we don't get to play in snow very often plus all those things are tons of fun. We played in the snow for about an hour before the sun was starting to go down, our feet and fingers were cold and wet and the snow was starting to get slushy so it was time to go back home.

Understandably Chance didn't want to go, he really didn't want to leave the snowman behind, he asked if we could take him with us and kept telling us he didn't want to leave him alone. So we told him that Clyde would be able to play with all the other snowmen that were scattered around the park (that other people had built throughout the day) and that we could fill up a cup that we had will snow to take with us. That made him feel better. For a little guy who lives as far South as he does he has been very lucky to see as much snow as he had, every year in fact. The first year in Portland on Christmas day (how crazy is that?) then last year it snowed right here at the house enough to play in and then this year only an hour and a half drive away there was snow. That is lucky.