Friday was a horrible day - freezing cold (literally!) and raining...by the afternoon the rain had turned to sleet, then ice, then snow! The snow lasted only a matter of minutes, but was beautiful all the same.
About 3am Saturday morning (one of the many usual times during the night that my body refuses to adjust to Austrian time for sleeping)...I noticed that instead of green in the gap between the blinds and the floor...it was white! Could it be snow? Yes, and lots of it! Outside the hill and FH were covered in about an inch of white fluffy snow - now I could see what those noisy buggers an hour earlier had been upto, if only I had woken up enough to join them!
Saturday morning I awake to the same glorious white landscape - after a fantastic Skype hook up with all the folks at Bonny Hills - some light entertainment and lots of Hellos, we head out to frollik in the white stuff.
Turns out the snow is just perfect for making snow balls :D The ensuing snow fight is epic - the boys, especially Freddie, dish out the ammunition with precision aim and painful force.
The first snow...only a week out from the start of Advent, seems like a good enough opportunity to start acting likes its Christmas - cue the Christmas music, and later that afternoon we check out the Christmas Markets in the old-town. Italian for dinner (no surprises there) and then a second division ice-hockey game round out the very white wintery day.
Truth be told, the Salzburg team sucked and we were left to make our own entertainment....
On our way out of the ice hockey there is just too much white stuff not being put to good use - another snow fight! This time I am definitely getting better, and actually hit my targets - although not with much force yet, just you wait!
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