A Snow Day

The day after Christmas, we decided to take a day and go see the snow. Somehow last year, we never made it up the hill an hour to see the snow and to play (probably because Neal was deployed for most of the winter). To be totally honest, I have not been sledding since I was five (or younger), and my kids have never done it. After the pain of gathering snow gear that we did not own, and making sure everyone would be comfortable, we headed up I-50 towards South Lake Tahoe, hoping to find snow sometime before chains and four-wheel drive was required. We were successful and had a great time, just north of Camino. The weather was perfect, not too cold, and there was fresh powdery snow! The only difficult part was Simon, he hated being bundled up and was mad from the moment we got there. He spent the entire time strapped in his car-seat watching Finding Nemo. Millie and Justin had so much fun, we tried to take them back up to more snow last weekend and did not have near as pleasant an experience. I guess it had been too warm and it hadn't snowed in a while. This time we went up I-80, and found a place just off the freeway at a gas station. The snow was hard as a rock and we just ended up sliding down the ice-hills on our bottoms. Luckily we were smart enough to leave Simon home for that trip. Hopefully we can see fresh snow again before the winter ends.

(That's me in the bright yellow garbage bag! Don't I look attractive?)