Snowy fun: fort-gloos and friends

Steph, Jon and Kate in the fort-gloo.

After being inside for what seems like forever, we were having a serious case of cabin fever - and the only way to cure that was - more cowbell! I kid. We felt that the nearly three-feet of snow was begging to be played in, so we grabbed some makeshift sleds, called our dear friend Steph, and decided to hit the killer hill on the farm.

In theory this sounded far easier, in actuality it was tough going to just get to the hill. We scaled the snowy walls our landlord made with his bucket loader (super fun) and then struggled through the thigh-deep snow to the hill. After a few attempts to simply throw our bodies down the hill to plow a path, a snowball fight ensued. I forgot how much fun it is to just throw snow at your friends. Realizing the snow was too deep to go sliding in, we decided to try our hand at building an igloo.

We headed back toward the snowy cliffs and started digging. Steph and I worked at clearing as much snow as we could with our sleds, while Jon worked with an actual shovel. Once the area was cleared, we commenced the wall building. I figured out a way to cut blocks of snow, which was very igloo-ish, and pretty awesome. After a while we realized that building an actual igloo was far trickier than we had anticipated, so we settled on it being a fort-gloo - you know, a half snow fort, half igloo. This picture is of me working on placing a snow block and Jon being kind of weird hiding behind the fort-gloo (I don't ask, it's safer that way).

Jon, Steph and I plugged away on our architectural masterpiece for almost two-hours. Once it was finished the walls were as high as my hip! It was definitely like being a kid again - purely simple fun with awesome friends.