Dec092009
Snow Day!
Filed under Academia by molly at 21:57 on Dec 09 2009
It snowed yesterday.
A lot. Madison is literally a winter wonderland, and I couldn’t be more excited! Classes were canceled today, making it the first time in four years. I stayed inside all day…slept until noon, watched “The Muppet Christmas Charol,” and tidied up my room a bit.
Last night, after finding out that classes were in fact canceled, the whole house (almost) bundled up and braved the cold for a good, old-fashioned snow ball fight!
There was a team hiding out on the balcony, sheltered by the cement barriers, while most of us were on the ground.
As you can see, it was pretty intense. There was also a giant snowman making. Unfortunately he fell down sometime this morning thanks to gravity.
Betsy, the cook extraordinaire, had to stay the night. She provided us with a couple trays, which we took to Bascom Hill. We made sure to always be armed with a snowball in hand while we were walking. People were held up behind walls and garbage cans emptying their ammunition on passerbys. We even were victim of a drive by snowballing! The snow wasn’t very good for sledding, but it was PERFECT for snowballs and snowpeople. I was completely soaked by the time I got back inside.
All in all, it’s been a very successful couple of days.
*photos by Preaa and Breanne, via Facebook.
1 Aaronon 10 Dec 2009 at 19:00
Oh Molly! How fun that must have been!!!
This reminds me of my first winter away from home at Iowa one night during the week before finals when it snowed liked crazy. Everyone on our floor got outside to have a snowball fight…which turned into making snow barricades in the street (which the police did not like–they patrolled the area and would tear our barricades down within the hours of us constructing them…then we’d do it again…and again they’d come…etc. :)), which turned into coating our RA’s car with snow from ground to car antennae, then pouring water all over the car so that it would freeze, lol. That was quite a night.
(ps…They said on the news that this was the first time in 50 years that Madison was closed?)
Oh how I wish I were there with you!! So happy you could enjoy it!!
Love you lots!