Come on SPRING!

Dear Mother Nature,

The snow you gave us on Monday was great. We had a lot of fun making snowmen, having snowball fights, taking beautiful photos of the snow and having an excuse to sit on the couch all night and watch movies, but seriously, we are all over these freezing cold temperatures, the rain, and the miserable grey skies.

My feet have not been warm in about a week, the front lawn is a bog, my car refuses to start most mornings and stalls at every intersection, and I can't show off my new haircut because it's too damn cold to not wear a beanie.

So please give us a good spring, and bring it soon. We all can't wait to get outside to go for bike rides and long walks, swim in the sea, eat icecream, wear sunglasses, go on random roadtrips, and laze in the grass reading a good book.

Yours sincerely,
Frozen

SNNNNNNOOOWWW!!! AGAIN!

Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. IT'S FREAKIN SNOWING FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS WINTER! You may remember my post last month when it snowed and we were all excited, but this time it's ten times better!
I realise that for most people, snow is a normal part of winter. But for us, we only get it way down south and on the mountains. It never fully snows. Like makes everything white. Like puts enough on the ground to make massive snowmen. Like makes driving dangerous.
But today, it's everywhere. The whole country, even the far north and the coasts, which haven't seen snow this bad in about 50 years, is all white! It's so magical! Last night, my flatmate and I looked out the window and it wasn't snowing. Then an hour later everything was white and it was the most amazing thing in the world. So we went outside in our gumboots and made a snowman and stuck our toungues out to catch snowflakes! Then this morning we were greeted with an even whiter winter wonderland!
You don't have to be a kid to enjoy snow, that's for sure!

This is my front yard!

Love these cute little rows of rural letterboxes

Poor wee sheep

This one's my favourite photo of the day :)

IT'S SNNNOOOWWWING!!!

Although I live in a country notorious for its snowy mountains, I can count on my fingers how many times I've acutally seen snow. Where I grew up, near the city and the sea in a little valley, we got a sprinkling of snow maybe once every five years. But last night, very few towns in New Zealand escaped the snow, as we experienced our worst snowfall in 15 years. So us Wellingtonians get very excited about the prospect of snow, especially me!
Where I live now, in a rural area over the hill from where I grew up, there is a mountain range and endless country roads.

This was my morning - driving around the Wairarapa with a massive grin on my face, squealing with delight at the magic of snow!