Our First Snowman

Jose K and I woke up this morning to discover that it snowed very heavily last night. There was even snow right up to our kitchen door. It was good fluffy snow not the icy stuff so we figured that it was a good day to finally build our very own snowman.

The hill behind our apartment is a really good buiding site. People seldom walk through it so the chances of your snowman lasting the entire winter is pretty good. So far, there are already 2 snowmen guarding the hill. This one has been here since early December and it is quite a feat of engineering. It is very tall. (It's about a head taller than the snowman that we finally built). Not very aesthetically pleasing- it does not have eyes, nose, ears, mouth or hands but it is snowman-shaped.

This one here appeared this morning. Whoever built it got tired halfway and gave it a very small head. I think it is a snow troll rather than a snow man. (heh)

Jose K wanted to get instructions from the Internet for builidng a snowman. I thought we should just wing it. After all, how difficult could it be? Just shovel together a heap of snow and make it round...

As we started to build our snowman, we quickly found out that it was not so easy. It took quite a lot of work to gather all the snow together. We had to climb up and down the hill many times. Midway, we got tired of using our hands and switched to plastic colanders to scoop up the snow, that made it alot easier. The interesting thing I discovered was that fluffy snow had almost the same texture as wet sand.

We aslo could not really make it very round. At one point, our snowman looked like a giant pyramid and then a giant boob (hah). But we did not give up.

After much patting and reshaping (at one point Jose K patted the snowman's head too hard and half of its face dropped off. Shriek!) here is a picture of the completed snow-man. We think it has an Asian aesthetic going on. What do you think?