Last weekend, some of my very dear friends brought me to see the first snow of my life at Rubicon, Victoria. I begrudgingly got up at 7am (when we were supposed to leave, oops), put on way too many layers of clothing, and steeled myself for TWO HOURS in the car. It turned out to be one of the best days ever, and left me feeling so grateful and warm that I have friends who were SO determined that I was going to see the snow this year. We left Rubicon so exhausted, but excitedly buzzing about our new yearly snow tradition (or at least I was!) The trip to Rubicon was actually really fun. We got coffee and hash browns from McDonalds and talked the entire time. We stopped before we went up the mountain for a pee break, and I went on the playground BUT NOBODY ELSE WANTED TO because everyone hates fun. Anica was very convinced that there wasn't going to be any snow, or there would only be terrible not-very-fun snow, BUT BOY did the mountain sure prove her wrong. When we started to see the first tiny patches of snow, it was like Christmas in my heart. I was so excited to even see a tiny bit of that frozen cold white sludge.

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