Snow Trolls

Arizona is such a great place.  Yesterday morning we awakened in Flagstaff to the small yet forceful cries "Nanna!!  Gampa!!" at our Inn Suites door. 

Outside it was nineteen degrees.  We loaded up the fams and drove up to the Snow Bowl, admonished every quarter mile "No Sledding At Ski Area", "No Parking On Snow Bowl Road", "No Stopping, Ever", so we went away from that place.  We did find an area with small hills where we disembarked, clambered, and sledded almost to G & B's content.  There was a bit of a meltdown when we finally had to leave, but everybody got upended, everybody ate snow, lots of screeching and laughs and no permanent disfigurements - other than those we came with.

Two hours later, 120 miles from the site of the nineteen degree wake-up call, the temp outside the BigRedTruck was 78 and we had the air conditioner on.  Kidlettes were watching a seeming endless-loop of Mary Poppins in the second row of seats, kidlettes' parental units in the way-back appeared (through the rear-view mirror) to be playing some permutation of Slap & Tickle that involved SB's socked foot repeatedly thrust under Joe's chin.  A great couple of days.