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As you might expect, snow is not so common in Alabama.  At the merest mention of flurries, everything shuts down; school gets out, people run to the store for supplies, and Northerners make fun of us for how silly we're being.  We are silly.  But man.  It is MASSIVELY EXCITING  when we actually get a substantial (for us, anyway) amount of snow.

Everyone spent yesterday talking about the supposed snow we were going to get Saturday.  I checked at 11pm last night; no snow.  I checked at 3am this morning; no snow.  I checked at 5:30 this morning; no snow.

My mom called me at 9:45 and, lo and behold--SNOW!  Falling everywhere!  It was so beautiful, and so exciting, that I threw on some clothes, grabbed my camera, and dashed outside to enjoy it for a few minutes.  After taking a few pictures, I wanted to run back in and call my mom back.  I grab my doorknob and...

...realize that out of what is usually a very responsible habit, I have locked my door.  With my keys and my cell phone inside.  And the only person in Montevallo who has a spare key is Ashton... who has moved to Kentucky.

Big oops.

Fortunately, Ashton's old roommates were very nice and let me in to call the landlady, who was also very nice and came to let me in.  The snow was still falling hard and I couldn't resist taking more pictures:

Once the snowfall slowed, I decided to bundle up and take a walk around Montevallo to see how such a pretty town  and campus would look under pretty snow.  The answer, as you might expect, is pretty:
I know to a lot of people who live in colder climates, all this fuss over such a small amount of snow seems ridiculous.  But people here, myself included, love it, and everyone's just so happy when it snows; every person I passed on my walk spoke to me, talked about how beautiful the snow was, and smiled.  Granted, it's the South, so people are usually that way anyway.  But everyone was so giddy; it was fabulous.  I think the general mood was best summarized by Facebook; when I chose to look at recent status updates of all my friends, about 95% of them involved the word "snow" and had multiple exclamation points.

After walking around for a while, I bumped into a group of fellow music majors enjoying the snow as much as, well, everyone else.  More pictures as soon as I can steal some from Erin, but for now, have a little Heather, Erin, and Joie action:

Joie's Quote of the Day:  [on the phone with my mom]  "My car just pooped snow!!!"