Winter Was Snow Much Fun As A Kid

Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 8 p.m.

b'When he was a kid, GamerDude loved winter.\\xa0 He talks about how hard it was to go through the long days of school from January 2 through mid-February, and how he longed for the occasional snow day. He remembers riding the bus to school in the snow, and the clank of the snow chains on the road, which made getting to school so much easier than it is now. He talks about the snowball fights they used to have in his neighborhood, and explains why he never took to skiing.\\xa0 He talks about the winter activities he did enjoy, from skating to sledding, and he talks about riding flying saucers, Flexible Flyers and toboggans down the hills near his home.\\xa0 And he talks about the snow ramp he and his friends built at the bottom of a hill, and his attempts to photograph the result.'