This week Photo Friday is dedicated to the white blanket Mother Nature brought on Christchurch.
In 2005, when we arrived New Zealand and experienced our first Winter, which in New Zealand is an indoor experience just as much as it is an outdoor one (hey! good idea for another post 
), everybody knew to tell us that the last real snowday Christchurch had was in 1992.
We had our first snowday experience in September of that year, and it wasn’t much to talk about. It wasn’t even enough snow to shut down the city for the day.
A year later there were 2 days with a bit of snow and nothing since, though some years the bitter cold winds fresh from Antarctica could be a great backdrop for snow days.
So when the weather forecast for Monday 25 July 2011 said it’s going to snow we kept our hopes low. Even the snow that started falling during the night didn’t thrill us too much. We wanted to see the real thing.
And in the morning we did! We woke up to a glorious winter wonderland.
The city was covered with a thick blanket of snow. Great fun for the kids and adults alike. This was the real thing. A thick enough blanket to ski on, to make a snowman, to play snow ball fights, to admire the soft white snow falling from the sky and to make starfish in the snow
If you have any snowday stories, from anywhere in the world, please share them with us in the comments below.
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