Now that was the oddest thing. I heard on the radio that it was "snowing", but I couldn't see any snow. The little white things that fell from the sky? Hail. I know... I had just walked into the dining hall after braving the weather, and it was hail. But it had turned into rain. Not snow. Obviously the radio people, or their sources, were exaggerating.

So I hop on a bus, heading to Target to (not return Lewa) but to buy a table for my room... and as the bus moved towards the mall-like area, the weather outside began to change. The rain grew white... not hail white, but snow white. I had to take back my insults to the radio people... IT WAS SNOWING! In the springtime... in Seattle of all places? I know we get rain year round here, but snow?

In the end, I didn't pick up a table, because I was lazy, and because of the snow. I walked through a virtual blizzard between the store entrance and the bus stop. True, it wasn't great snow... very wet, made my hand watery and cold when I tried to condense some of it into a snowball. But it was legitimate snow... and some things were under a couple inches of it already. (As long as the things weren't disturbed. For example, the trash cans and street signs had a layer of snow. The sidewalk had a thin layer of mush... and my shoes got wet.

And here's the craziest thing... I got back to the university, and it wasn't snowing at all. (Only raining) And people said that it hadn't snowed either. The mall was only a couple of miles away (five, I think) and not at a much different elevation. I don't quite understand how the mall got a lot of snow, but we got totally passed by at the school.

Oh well, I don't understand weather. After all, the only reason I got the weather merit badge was because my friends and I hung out with a camp counselor for an afternoon as summer camp, and he let us breeze through a couple of MBs... of which our troop leaders later revoked because we didn't put enough work into them. Oh well, cheating the system there didn't work...

And now for something... different.