there is something surreal about living in the snow... when its been dark and snowing for the past 6 days and you wake up one morning to the the sun shining in your window, you look outside and have to squint because the refelction of the sun against the snow is too much for your eyes to take in, you look up and the sky is a brilliant, bright blue... the snow on the ground glistenes like glitter... it really is magical...