Day 3.302: Bowling, buying, building and balling

I took the day off work today so that we could pick up a car that we bought on Saturday. Nothing to do with our van which is at the body-shop being fixed and will be for another week or so at least - this was a replacement for my Jetta - which had an eventful final journey today.

We'd decided to go with E5N1 to pick up the new car after picking him up from school at lunchtime, so we had the morning to occupy by ourselves. A hike was the plan, but the threat of almost constant rain put us off. It's probably just as well. Instead we went bowling:

The rain was actually some light sleet (ice pellets) when we arrived there.  By the time we had proved our lack of skills to ourselves in the otherwise deserted establishment it had changed...to snow.

The snow continued to fall as we picked E5N1 up, went to the car dealership and then went to get a late lunch.

We got home a few minutes before it was time for the girls to get off the bus.  It had turned into a quite convincingly snowy day and it was still falling.

Instead of sitting them down to do some homework when they got home, I dragged them out to build a snowman.  We were joined by their two-doors-down friend who was celebrating an unusually wintry birthday.

We followed up with a snowball fight that E5N1 got into - not something that he would have had much tolerance of last winter.    Quite good all round.