Snow is something quite rare in this area of France, probably as rare as dinosaurs today ! or very close. =) And if we do get a bit of snow it comes in millimeters, we sometimes get 5 or 10 mm, and maybe if we’re really lucky we get 20 mm ! Wow… Anyway I think you get the point.
But believe it or not, this week we saw a dinosaur ! Yup, last Sunday morning with already a couple mm of snow on the ground it started snowing, but this time in wasn’t the usual spitting or the nasty nagging from the sky which it really loves doing here; no, it actually started snowing at a such a speed that towards the end of the day we had gotten 150 mm !!! Doesn’t that sound so like a lot !? =)
So that night after coming home around 7 pm from a special evening with our church, we all (dad, mom and friends) decided to enjoy the great snow, that was especially good for packing, and built a great snowman that was about three meters tall (ok, maybe something close to that.)
Once finished with that we decided to make an igloo, which, yes, is a family tradition (maybe we have some eskimo blood…). We did finish that after the “fabrication” of at least the hundredth snow brick ! At eleven at night ! But when taking the time to admire what we had created, we had great satisfaction inside and that’s what made it so great.
P.S. I’ll put some pictures tomorrow of the snow day if you’re interested .