also, if I had a band, I might call it The Blizzard of 96

Apart from being an incredible phenomenon, I love snow for how many memories it has created over the years. Here are some of my favorites:

• spending whole mornings in the snow with Mandy and Sam - attempting to be the first ones in the neighborhood to step in it, sledding down the hill, and eventually coming in for cocoa and a movie while one of our moms put all our snowsuits and gear in the dryer
• making tracks in the snow with Mandy at night, then later finding a drawing she made entitled 'The Best January ever' on my front step (fairly certain I'm not making this up)
  
• it snowing on Thanksgiving one year in my entire life, and rejoicing with Bethany
• sledding down the deck stairs when it was deep enough
  
• playing in forts that Kirsten built out of the excess driveway snow
• our hill being the snow day mecca of McGill's Common
• stealing Diner trays to use on the Comcast hill before they stopped putting them out once snow was forecast
• snow football (as if I played) on Metzerott and hanging out in Courtyards with a bunch of people afterward