Surprise spring snow

What happened yesterday.......

They keep talking about spring showers and I have yet to see one. Every time they say it will rain it has actually snowed. The kids and I joke by saying they don't know the difference between snow and rain. Weather reports have been forcasting a warm up this weekend. Now I am sure that our warm and their warm up are completely different things...I'm sure? But the really funny thing was yesterday's weather. Not one weather report forcasted yesterdays weather correct. Not one!

Now, before I tell you about the weather I want to explain to you my plans for yesterday. Thursday was my first organized Urban Hike. I was very excited about hiking through a coulee here in Calgary. Well, when I came down the stairs ready to bring the kids to school I caught a glimps through the window. It was snowing. Not just a little, but alot. It was the most we have seen since we have been here. A lot on the ground and still falling. I got Brock and Sydney to school ok, but then had to decide what I would do about my hike. I was a little intimadated by the snow, but then figured why not. It is going to happen sooner or later. I even got lost on my way there because everything look so different in white, and this was in my neighborhood. Oh sorry, it is a community. It turned out to be the most beautiful thing ever. Fresh snow on the groung and covering all the trees. Again it was all breathtaking, except when the snow was hitting me in the eyes and I couldn't see anything (mental note....wear sunglasses).

But that wasn't all. On the radio they talked about the surprise snowfall no one knew was coming and the horrific traffic it caused. They said, " If you don't have to get on the road, then don't. This will wash away with the afternoon rain coming." I heard that all morning. That rain never came. The snow stopped falling around 11:00 and started to look pretty. At 2:30 as I picked up Brock and Sydney from school the clouds moved in. As usual they were playing on the play ground for a bit before we go home. That is when it started to fall...no not rain, no not snow, but ice. Those little bitty pieces of ice can really hurt. We realized that this stuff looked just like dippin dots. We watched dippin dots and snow fall all afternoon AND evening. I don't really have a problem with the snow. What was so fasinating to me is that they had no idea it would happen.

This morning the basic report was "Oops!"