First Snowman!

When you move to a place that has snow during the winter the first two things that you need to do, after losing the fear of it, are to build a snowman and go sledding.  But so far this winter has been disappointing. We got a lot of cold weather with wind chills reaching below zero, but where has the snow been? We had only two main days with snow; one was December 31, 2012 and the other was February 22, 2013.  On this last day, my wife and I built our first snowman.

After a day out of the city, my wife removed all snow from our driveway and sidewalk in the morning. I came back in the afternoon and looking in our backyard we had a good amount of snow to do something, so we decided to create our snowman. We had an idea how to do it, but when we started we realized that it was not as easy as we thought.

We built the base with a medium snowball but the shape was not too good. When we put the second on top of the first one, our man was looking like a mushroom instead of a snowman.  We started to rebuild the base. We tried once, twice, and the third time we got it.

The last part was the head and that was easy. It was a small ball and some sticks for the hair, arms, and mouth. We included a scarf and it was done. Our first snowman stood outside until last Friday when the sunlight destroyed it.

It was a good experience but maybe we need to wait until next winter to complete our journey and go sledding on the snow!