Snow Days

After the long MLK weekend, Chapel Hill received a lot of snow early Tuesday morning. Lucky for us students, that meant we ended up having school only 1.5 days that week! Wednesday and Thursday classes were cancelled, and half of Friday classes were cancelled as well. This is one instance where North Carolina did not freak out and over exaggerate the snow (at least for Chapel Hill). We had at least 7 inches on the ground here, and were effectively stranded with the icy roads. 

This was the first time I was on campus during a snow break. Normally I would have driven home to Raleigh, but since the snow came over night and no one knew just how bad it would be, I remained in CH. Honestly, it was a lot of fun to venture onto campus in the snow. There were many people building snowmen, some of which were giants that required over five guys to roll the base. 

My friends and I walked through the upper and lower quad, and finished off our walk at Kennan Stadium. There was a group playing a mini football game, people building an igloo or some sort of fort, and again, massive snowmen. 

Later in the day, one of my roommates revealed she had never before tried snow cream--which to me is a rite of passage here in the south. We gathered the necessary supplies (snow, milk or cream, sugar, vanilla) and made a big batch! There are other types of snow cream, some of which involving chocolate sauce or chocolate chips, but I'm a purist and prefer classic vanilla (adding extra vanilla extract is key for me). 

After that, everyone hung out inside, drank tea, and watched movies and/or did homework. I would say it was quite a successful day! 





 This is me going to my care to scrape it off... in my "comfy clothes"... I ended up with a lot of snow in my boots and on my pants. 


All in all it was fun, but I am officially snowed out. Bring back summer!! 

Until next time, 
B 

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  1. Bailey HFebruary 10, 2018 at 12:35 PM

    I'm glad you had a fun few days of snow and converted your roomie to the southern way of snow cream!!

    xo,
    Bailey
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