Snow Days - Meet Maxwell :)

There was a snow day for basically everyone in the Treasure Valley schools here in good ol' Idaho yesterday.  I had driven to campus anyway that day so I found out once I had arrived and already braved the treacherous roads that there weren't any classes.  I suppose most people would be upset; I was excited to just hang out on campus for a while and not have anything to do.  I was able to hang out with a friend for most of the time that I was on campus, we ate Chick-fil-A and had white chocolate mochas, then we went over to a park and built a snowman.  He's pretty awesome I must say, and I'm not just saying that because we made him and I'm biased haha.  I really mean it!  We set him on a bench so people could sit with him and take pictures if they wanted to, and he had shoes and legs and ear muffs and a cute little face.  My friend named him Maxwell and I helped come up with the middle and last name, haha.

While we were there in making Maxwell come alive in the snow, we saw a guy a little ways from us also making a sculpture in the snow.  His was a dragon with three heads and pretty good details all over it.  I really liked it; it was pretty stunning to look at as it stood there frozen in the snow.

I thought about the art we had just created in the park, and I realized that there would be many people who would walk by Maxwell and this crazy and amazing looking dragon and take pictures either with them or around them.  It was cool to think that we might have made someone's day later on when we had left to go back to our lives at school.  Rarely do I get the chance to do something remarkable, and even if things are small like our snowman on the park bench, I think that they have the ability to make a difference in someone's life that day. :)

As we left the park, we turned back to give our final farewells to our frostbitten friend, and we saw the first people to take pictures with good ol' Maxwell C. Frostbite.  Hopefully, I'll be given the opportunity to change lives for the better more often and in bigger ways.  Perhaps this is something that I could look for in a career someday.  Or maybe this is a simple gift that I will bring to the world as my own personal touch on the communities I come in contact with in my life.