The Blizzard of 2011 and ways to ENJOY snow!

So when I was trying to figure out what to do for this blog, I needed a little inspiration. Nothing was coming to mind and I could not figure out what I wanted to do for this weeks blog. While sitting in my office, all I had to do was look outside, and what did I see? Any guesses?.................. SNOW!!! So it was at that moment that I decided to write about snow, and more importantly giving our readers some suggestions on how to make the snow more fun. Also since Don was away for all of the snow, this is our way of sharing the snow with him.

On Tuesday, February 1st, Clara and I drove to work in the morning like usually. Little did we know that the snow was coming and it was going to be coming fast! Throughout the day we looked outside, and felt like we were in a snow globe. At lunch time we heard that the office was closing early so that everyone could get home safely. So after finishing up the work that we had to do we ventured out into the snow for the ride home. Here are some pictures that I took on the ride home. It really was bad!

 This is the parking lot at the office.













This is Dundee Ave. Cars were going like 15 mph. 

This is Lawrence.

How to Spend your Snow Day! BVS Style

1.) Watching Supernatural - Supernatural Clip 

2.) Finding Killer Icicles (and sending pictures of it to Don) 

 3.) Making a path in the snow!














4.) Try to get a true measure of how much snow you got.



 5.) Write secret messages to each other in the snow.

6.) Catch snowflakes on your tongue. Remember January snow is the best.

 

7.) Shake now out of the trees and onto people walking below



8.) Make Snow Angels

9.) Make snow friends (formerly known as snowmen)

10.) Make an 8 foot snowman - I made one when I was in college.


11.) Make a fort
12.) Snow Ice Cream (1 gallon snow, 1 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, 2 cups milk)
13.) Eat snow (but not the yellow snow)
14.) Make snow cones
15. and 16.) Ice or snow sculpting or Snow painting

17.) Ice cube scavenger hunt (Using food coloring, freeze ice cubes of one color or of several different     colors. Hide cubes in the snow in a designated area and let the children try to find them.)
18.) Footprint tag (Play tag, stepping only in others’ footprints.)

Snow for people that AREN’T in BVS

• Sledding
• Snow Shoeing
• Snowboarding or skiing
• Curling
• Bobsledding
• Ice hockey
• Go dog sledding
• Snowmobile
• Learn to ice skate