Snow Day!

I really want snow. It looks like we might get it this weekend. I have had the weirdest snow days in high school. For Senior year, the day of the Presidential Inauguration there were calling for a 100% chance of snow. Every household received a phone call at 5:45am to tell us that school was canceled for the day. I was so excited. As I sat on the couch watching the inauguration I kept looking out the window for a flake of snow. There were times when my eyes and mind were playing tricks on me because for a second I thought I saw ONE snow flake. On the evening news the weathermen insisted that it did actually snow in the atmosphere but it evaporated before it made it down to where we could see it. That made me so upset. A couple weeks later, there was actually a dusting of snow and I was excited. The only problem was they did not cancel school. Because I drive to school I had to drive with the black ice all over the road. Get this! Half of Chesapeake had a snow day because the buses could not drive on the bridges. AND only half the people actually showed up to school so the teachers could not teach anything anyway. Both times Senior year, snow days were a bust. I got out of school for no snow and had to go to school for snow.


I live in Chesapeake so the first sign of snow everybody flips out. No one knows how to drive in the snow, VDOT (Virginia Department of Transportation) does not put salt on the roads early enough, I don’t even know if there are a snow plows on that side of the state. The last day I got out of school for snow that I remember was 7th grade (2004). That snow day was nice because it lasted a week :)


I remember my mommy making soup, me setting out a bucket to catch snow in to make snow cones with evaporated milk and vanilla extract, getting pulled down the street on a trash can lid, and drinking hot coco and cuddling on the couch watching a movie and looking out the window at the winter wonderland. I also remember that my mommy used to come in my room and pull up the blinds so when I woke up I would see all the snow outside.


I miss the few snow days I got; however, I am grateful for every minute. I hope your snow days were as memorable as mine were.

Winter Break

Since we just got done with winter break I thought I would tell you all why mine was amazing. Well, it did not start amazing. The day I was packing to come home I called my mom to ask her if there were anything else I should bring or anything I might be forgetting. She said in a soft tone you need to bring your suit home. At that time I was very puzzled but decided not to ask any questions so I could have a nice ride home. When I got home my mom told me that my great aunt died and her funeral was the following week. I still hung out with all my friends that I have not seen and for some it had been four months. See in high school, there was a group of us that were always hanging out and we were all really close friends. If I were not spending time with my friends I was with my family. The first two weeks my cousin was in town and so I hung out with her as much as I could. When she left I was either hanging out with my friends or hanging out with my family or doing chores. My friends and I went ice skating, out to lunch, played monopoly, watch the comedian Jim Gaffigan, went to see Sherlock Holmes (great movie I cannot wait for the next one), had a girl’s night sleepover, went bowling, celebrated New Years, etc. My family and I went to the Virginia Dinner, to see Blind Side (great movie made me cry), to see Avatar (IMAX and 3d was amazing), to Christmas Town at Busch Gardens, to dinner, to church, shopping, celebrated Christmas, etc.

Christmas Town in Busch Gardens Williamsburg, VA was amazing. It was at maximum capacity when I went. Busch Gardens is set up with a theme, Europe and each place inside is a different European country. It is very family oriented so there may be a pub in Ireland but there are little kid rides in England or Germany, etc. The shows during Christmas Town were spectacular just like they are all year round, except in Christmas Town they were Christmas theme and not country themed. The reason the park was at capacity was they did not have all the countries open and only one rollercoaster running. This was their first year so they probably did not know how many to expect plus it had been raining for about a week before. The place was full of lights, had penguins from Sea World in Florida and California (that was a bust though because I stood in line for 30min to see 5 tired penguins), a tall Christmas tree whose lights blinks to the rhythm of the music, tons of Christmas shows, and more.

Well, I hope all of you had an amazing break like I did. I was not bored once.