We often go a whole winter without getting a flake of snow at all. I hate the cold, but just once I'd love it to be really snowy and picture perfect. I don't ever remember that in England on Christmas Day.
Where I live when we get snow events they get permanently named. Last year we had 'Snowmageddon'.
I like to visit snow somewhere else like Colorado, Wyoming or Montana for a ski weekend. Then I've had enough.
I like celebrating Christmas in the tropics at the beach.
There's a special charm in a cold, white Christmas. It forces people to slow down. It's perhaps also a question of having grown up with it, but going for sleighrides and building snowmen brings back a spark of childhood and its wonders. I love huddling up inside with red cheeks after hours in the cold, sipping mulled wine while sharing funny stories from the past, the air filled with scents of cinnamon, vanilla, oranges and fir tree.
Sorry Chris in Canada has snow for so much of the year. I'm on the west coast in Canada and we rarely get snow at all. It is most unusual for us to ever have a white Christmas. Happy to have family around though! That is most important to me.
Snow does seem to enhance the Christmas spirit but here in the UK were are more likely to have snow at easter, the Last really white Christmas I can recall was back in 1970.
The Lower Mainland of B.C. and the Pacific Northwest in general (at least the side west of the Cascades) tends to receive very little snow due to having a year-round marine temperate climate. Pretty much just cold rain, and lots of it. We did have the stereotypical white Christmas a few years ago but it was brief, and a bit of a treat.
No joke, my now-deceased grandmother used to tell me that when Santa's sleigh came to B.C., he stopped off at either the Vancouver Aquarium or the Seattle Aquarium and switched out his reindeer for harbour seals, the better to handle the weather and deliver presents more efficiently in the rain.
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While I do find snow is part of the Christmas experience for me, I don't really miss it anymore (too many drives through snowstorms to Christmas dinner will do that to you) and have enjoyed two Christmases in the sunny south (one at a resort in Cuba and the other on a cruise ship in the Caribbean).
While I do find snow is part of the Christmas experience for me, I don't miss it anymore (too many drives through snowstorms to Christmas dinner will do that to you) and have enjoyed two Christmases in the sunny south (one at a resort in Cuba and the other on a cruise ship in the Caribbean).
I would like snow on Christmas, but could do without the intense cold. It seems as i get older, Christmas is holding less and less lure to be with the extended family. Perhaps that will change as the next genration of babies comes along, but for now, i am was so tempted this year to go somewhere warm with a friend.
doesn't matter as long i'm with family
