I love hot chocolate with marshmallows and a shot of pepperment shnapps!
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I love hot chocolate with marshmallows and a shot of pepperment shnapps!
Last winter, the guys who lived in the house across the street from me made a snow woman who was, ah, bent forward and a snow man who was, ah, standing behind her and "giving her the business" (in honor of a thread from last week). The happy couple stood on the corner of Hyland and West St and it was amazingly detailed for being made out of just snow and rocks.
Forgot about taking your POS car out to the Hilton parking lots and doing donuts in the un-plowed lots. Or using said POS car and tie a sled or saucer to the bumper and try to whip your friend around on it.
After a good snow we would rent cross-country skis at the Armory Rec and head over to Veenker.
Also sledding at the Arboretum over by Cap Timm Field. If you did not pay attention you would end up in the creek.
Good times, Good times.
I watched alot of soap operas during winters in Ames....
I really enjoyed sledding at the disc golf course south of Towers after it snowed. I wasn't really one for the food service trays - I preferred getting a garbage bag, putting a hole in the bottom, using it as a straight jacket, and throwing myself down the hill. That was good times. I also really liked playing snow football in the old RCA courtyard late at night. I especially remember the guy who caught a pass, went to turn, and ended up falling full force on the chain fence WITH HIS NECK!!! He was perfectly fine - actually jumped up, rolled his neck, and kept playing.
Huge Ice storm in December of 2000, and we got school cancelled. Unbelievable day. Went sledding down our driveday on trays. Unbelievably amazing day.
You sure that wasn't January '01? I remember a "supposed" snow/ice storm that never actually came - ok, it did come, but it didn't justify canceling school over (although I'd gladly take it).
I remember March 2000, weekend before spring break, we got dumped with a foot of snow. That entire week afterwards it was 70 degrees. The first time in my life that I was in a snowball fight in shorts and t-shirt and didn't freeze my *** off ... (I spent Spring Break in Florida, and it was actually warmer in Ames that week than it was in Florida :wacko:)
During inclement snowy weather, I really enjoyed how the chicks would drop their guard and look at you from under their cap with big brown puppy dog eyes like you actually existed. There is excitement in a good storm that brings humanity together, ummm!