Snowman Adventure
It actually snowed here in Champaign (gasp!) Sunday morning. Enough snow to do something. Obviously, we had three options for the day: go sledding, or build something out of snow, or have a snowball fight. Champaign is flat like a pre-pubescent boy (does that even make sense?!?), and the one man-made hill in town specifically designated for sledding is always packed with children whenever it snows. So that eliminated sledding. Dusty throws like a girl, so that eliminated the snowball fight. The only thing left to do was to build a snowman!
And build a snowman we did…
It took us several hours and half the snow available between the townhouse complexes, but we build a snowman so big frosty would have wet himself. The snowman came out to be about ~2 lauras tall (8–10 feet), and weight in somewhere in the ballpark of 8–10 lauras (I’m guessiong 1000lbs, but I’m just making that up).
The sections were so large (and more importantly, heavy) that we had to cut in half the middle and head snowballs so that the pieces could be lifted into place and then reassembled. That construction strategy came from our resident mechanical engineer Amanda Hilldore. Our chemist, Doug Davis, tried to take credit for the idea, but accidentally breaking a snowball in half while you’re trying to assemble the snowman doesn’t count as an idea. Full pictures of the ordeal are available here. Videos of the process are here and here.