On Tuesday we scampered up to Arnold to beat the snow storm, and as luck would have it, the roads were bare the entire way in. The next day we had a light dusting on the ground, and snow fell the rest of the day on and off, sometimes in sheets of huge flakes. Magical! The kids broke away from pool to run over to the golf course for making snow men, and when that got old, we jumped in the car to go further up Hwy 4 to find a sledding hill. We only headed back when the sun went down, the temperature dropped, and I lost all feelings in my toes. John and Janine joined us the next day for a hike through Big Trees State Park (with a warming hut!) and then Moaning Caverns and wine tasting in downtown Murphy's where the kids made cookies under blankets and shivered around the world's most ineffective fire.
