Two Hours of Fun

Remember our Bear Valley "vacation" back in March that involved a burst water pipe and root beer sno-cone syrup spilled in our luggage?  (If not, go here.)  What should have been a 5-day snow trip with friends turned into a 33-hour ordeal for just the three of us.  We were all pretty miserable for 31 of those 33 hours.  But for 2 hours, while we waited for a plumber, we had fun in the snow.  We dug out our snow toys, washed the sno-cone syrup off them, and walked the short distance to our favorite sledding hill.  We had a snowball fight and had countless runs down the hill.  It was wonderful.

I debated whether or not to scrap this trip.  I tend not to scrap unpleasant things, as I don't usually need help remembering them.  Besides, I'd already blogged about this particular fiasco. In the end, I decided to scrap the pictures from our two hours of fun.  

 

I had a lot of fun with this layout.  The background is a mottled blue from BasicGrey's Lauderdale collection, which is a summer-themed line.  I used white Mister Huey's and the Tattered Angels stencil from June's Flamingo Four to create a wintery background on the summery paper.  Then I matted three pictures (one of each of us - that's Steve throwing snow in the top right and me sledding in the bottom right), added my journaling, and included a title. The journaling talks about the negative parts of our trip, but overall the layout makes me smile and captures the two good hours we spent.