As native Floridians, we don't have any experience with snow. I have only seen it once, more than 15 years ago, and Brian had never seen it. We've tried traveling to see it, but it's never worked out. Luckily for us, though, snow came to us in England!
Several inches fell during the evening and overnight, and this morning we woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland around our town. We don't live in a major city, so we got to play in the soft, white, pretty snow. We spent all morning making snowballs and snow angels and just taking in the scenery. (There may have been an intense snowball fight somewhere in there too...) =) I'm sure everyone watching us play like little kids thought we were a little weird, but we had fun. I told Brian that next time we need to wear signs that say "We are from Florida."
We even took Lilo out to play in the field where we normally walk her - we're not sure if she's seen snow before, but it didn't seem to faze her at all. Everyone who knows our dog knows how much she hates rain, but she loved playing in the snow all morning!
The snow could not have come at a better time. Today was Brian's Friday off of work, so we played all morning and bundled up in the afternoon and enjoyed our first snow day. Brian and I even made our English cups of tea to help keep us warm. After talking with the locals today, we found out that Bury hasn't seen snow like this before Christmas in about 30 years. The weather officials say the chances of an actual white Christmas are slim, but this was close enough for us. =)Here are some pictures from our adventures around town this morning - all were taken within half-a-mile of our home. Hope you enjoy (especially our friends and family in Florida who have beautiful sunshine right now! We loved the snow today, but I'm not sure how we're going to do with the rest of the winter!)
And we couldn't resist sharing this cute video of Lilo and Brian playing in the snow.
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