Ollie’s Adventure Journal – The Day of the Roofless Snow Fort

I was a cold January afternoon. The snow was piled high from the blizzard over the weekend. School was cancelled. The drifts were everywhere making mountains in the meadow. The snow made the trees pretty and heavy. It was crunchy under my feet. The air was cold on my nose and smelled of pine and wintery snowstorm. I love when I can see my breath, too. It was the perfect day to build a snow fort. What usually happens after is a giant snowball fight with all the kids in the meadow.

I spent the morning in my hat and scarf building my fort making it round and strong enough to defend against all the incoming snowballs. I crawled through the little opening I made and waited. Soon, Ticklebit, Spoon, Lil Bear, Big Bear and Artemouse, who fires snowballs from her bow all came charging. Ticklebit, a rabbit bounced along trying to hit me but I was too quick and ducked a lot. Spoon, a Koala is really very slow and couldn’t do much because she was always falling over the snowballs she made. Doofle, a very small elephant kept making snow cones and eating them. The Bear brothers started throwing snowballs at each other because that’s what brothers do and Artemouse fired shot after shot and the hit the walls of my super cool fort and bounced off.

What I didn’t anticipate was Gordon. He’s a dragon and he can fly. As I was watching the action in the field I saw a shadow fly over the fort. I looked up just in time to see Gordon release a giant wet mushy snowball. He yelled, “Ahoy down there!” and let it go. I forgot to build a roof on my fort and I was buried up to my cold pink nose in fresh wet snow.

I heard everyone yell a cheer and they came rushing to dig me out. My toes were cold, my nose was cold and my clothes were soaked. Later, we all went to my house and had hot chocolate and butterscotch cookies. It was a fun filled, friend filled snowy snowball day.