Winter fun

This afternoon, a couple of the math girls and I went on a tour of some of Ithaca's waterfalls... beginning with Cascadilla, then Ithaca Falls, and then Taughannock Falls. The perk was, they were mostly frozen :). Cascadilla was rather small, Ithaca was pretty amazing as most of it was frozen and it's rather large. And it was a pretty drive up to Taughannock, with sightings of the lake and the eastern hill and a field of deer grazing, ending up with ducks on the edge of Cayuga Lake and a spectacular view of the falls and frozen gorge. It was a cool way to begin the birthday celebrations. Then after lots of fun decorating my apartment, playing with party blowers, dinner at the Thai place, and then fondue and a movie, we discovered it had snowed! Silly me decides to try driving them home, straight up the hill. My all-weather tires decided snow wasn't included in that. I got two blocks up the hill in about 10 minutes, had a crash course in snow driving on the phone (thank you!), and made it back home. The girls decided they didn't want to join me for a snowball fight, so I had fun alone :).
I made 2 snow angels (because one just looked so lonely by itself), a snowman, a snow duck (to honor the ducks of the day), a snow mound, and a snow splatter painting on the side of my building. If you've never layed down and watch the snow fall on you, you should try it. It looks like the stars are falling on you, or you're flying through space. Little fairies coming to you. It looks really neat. And so is the sound of snow balls falling onto snow banks. However, I must say that snowball fights with the sky and a wall get boring after a while ;), as the sky's snowballs are rather tiny and the wall just has nothing for you. It is a fun sound. After a while, I decided it would be wise to go back inside, as I leave tomorrow to be interviewed for a few days, and I probably shouldn't be sleep deprived or sick. It's amazingly warm out though for the snow, which is why playing in it was so fun, it was so hard to come in. But it will snow again. And I challenge anyone to a snow ball fight! :)
By the way, Erin thanks for taking me to Ross, the gloves are amazing! They didn't see the ski slopes, but they sure make fantastic snow balls. It was so fun to be all suited up in my new winter gear :). It's just exciting and beautiful. Freshly fallen snow is beautiful... you hate to walk or drive on it and taint it. It's just a beautiful blanket. I took some pictures of my fun, as well as some trying to be artistic shots because the snow just looked so pretty, and you can find them here.