SNOWCOLDSNOWICESNOWYAAAY

I would say these past couple weeks have been busy yet rather uneventful save for the extraordinary circumstance of SNOW. TWICE. IN A WEEK.

"Quoi?!" you say.

Being a Miami girl, at first I cringed and shuddered at the thought of snow. Snow means cold. Snow means ice. SNOW MEANS YAY.

YAAAAAAY

This is definitely a(nother) picture heavy post. I don't mind, do you?

In fairness, you readers really don't get much of a say in the matter, do you? DO YOU?!

I have (half) changed my opinion of snow. Snow is absolutely lovely when it falls...

It starts like this.

Gradually moves on to this.

Aaaaand then turns into a snowball fight!

Cars are off-limits, but faces aren't!

Rather fitting since that night we had reindeer...courtesy of the pictured Finn!

The day after the first snow (and the second time ever I've seen snow fall!), this is what I saw.

Shocking, startling, pristine white!

And two days later looks like this:

Taken at the park behind the Hunter Street Campus.

This is our Student Centre/Refectory.

So grey!

I totally love that you can see duck footprints in the bottom left corner. It's pretty adorbs to watch them waddle across!

So a couple (bitterly cold) days go by and snow falls AGAIN! Just in time for my lovely Angie to come stay for a couple days, no less!

Angie can make a plum buckle now!

...and she still has the crazy eyes for food! Btw, Clay's of Buckingham (our local butcher) has amazing sausage for pretty cheap! I approve and look forward to making more meat purchases there. :)

Okay, okay, back to the snow!

A preface: Olivia thought it would be awesome to go trekking through the woods at night in the hopes of having a horror film come to life (naturally, nothing happened). I wonder what you think of this story I've put together, Olivia...

Fresh snow had just fallen on the sleepy town of Buckingham. While most people were huddling around their fires with a warm cuppa...

...four silly students came out into the falling snow, starting snowball fights with each other and posing for pictures.

How carefree they were!

What powerful poses!

What adorable faces!

How happy!

How blissful they were to roll chunks of a frozen (likely) former snowman down a snowy hill!

But still, they entered the woods (and we all know this is a very, very bad idea. All the horror films tell us so!).

There, they found a foreboding chainlink fence and a suspicious lorry that we assume carried a gene-altering substance that turns the infected into a RABBIT SAMURAI.

This was their last happy moment before the agent took hold.

Clearly, something was wrong with Olivia.

She began acting like a really creepy rabbit. Things were fine (albeit a bit weird) until...

...she found a 15 foot sword and started going after them! Samurai mode had kicked in.

Angie and Isha didn't even see it coming!

This is the last that was ever seen of Isha.

Andrew picked up the big ice chunk, but it was to no avail! She ended him, too.

Olivia still stalks the snow-laden streets of Buckingham. Now you see her--

--now you don't! The end!

Well, moving on from that (travesty of a) story, between strolls into town with Angie and long picture walks with Olivia, I have quite a lot of pictures of this white stuff!

I have...

...the best view...

from the best room...

...in all of Sunley House. <3

Duck intermission!

Duck it, that's enough!

Olivia has a knack for finding interestingly-shaped sticks. Here we have THE SWORD OF JUSTICE! I can't believe that name stuck.

Olivia's pictures have been sprinkled in here (hint: they're usually the better ones!) and I've neglected to properly credit her...but these last ones are all her gorgeous photography. They're all taken in and around the Hunter Street campus.

It's somehow always an adventure here. :)

Cheers!