Snow Day!

Yesterday the town was shut down, schools and businesses closed as there was a good 1 foot snowfall the night before! Thankfully (and surprisingly!) we did not lose power, but we woke up and looked outside at our winter wonderland, it was quite exciting! Adessa just yelled "noooo, noooo, nooooo!" over and over (translation-snow) and Danika just wanted to go tobogganing. However living on the island we do not have a togoggan as last winter I think we had one day of snow and that was it! So halfway through the day after the roads were plowed we sent daddy in to pick up a toboggan so we could do it right! Once Danika and I were bundled up we went behind our house, with the rest of the Crofton kids, as I think we have the only tobogganing hill in Crofton! We went ripping down a few times only to discover we were absolutely drenched! That is a major difference between here and Calgary, Calgary is freezing but the snow stays together and you can toboggan without getting wet, but here it is so humid and even though there was a foot of snow it was still +5 out so the snow melts quickly, it was like slush and Steve spent an hour shoveling away a 5 foot area behind his car!
After Adessa woke up from her nap we packed up the car and headed to our friends house to toboggan down their big hill. They only had a baking sheet to toboggan on.. which didn't work so well as it just sunk right down! haha, we had some good laughs and the kids loved it, even the babies! Unfortunately I have no pictures of the fun day because somewhere along the way of our Christmas vacation we lost our battery charger! But it was one fun day and today the snow was pretty much all melted already!