Las Vegans in the Snow: "My car is frozen to the ground!"

+Michaela Huntsman and I are from sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. To sum up the experience we've previously had with snow, It snowed about a quarter of an inch one year and schools were closed the next day. The snow was all gone by 7 a.m. So, winter time in Provo has been an adventure to say the least.

The first time that the snow stuck to the ground, there were a lot of questions and exclamations of wonderment like "What do you even wear on your feet?!" "How long is this supposed to last?" "It must take a lot of little fluffy white things falling from the sky to make this much stuff on the ground" "Snow falls in actual snow flakes! Did you know that?! I just thought when snow fell it was in like these little puffy balls and when you got a microscope those were the crystal formations! Look at this! Snow flakes!!!"

We made a lot of new discoveries too... like when snow melts in your shoes, you're going to be miserable guaranteed, and you have to kick the snow off of your shoes BEFORE you go inside or else everything in your apartment gets wet, and when enough people walk on the snow that's just fallen, it becomes ice! Woah! Crazy right? I know! So, we spent the first two weeks walking like baby deer who had just learned to stand... slipping and falling and using our curse words like "gosh hang it!" and embarrassing ourselves..... all the time (like that's new). It seems the more we embarrassed ourselves, the more the people around us found us fantastically entertaining. I guess that's cool or whatever... 

Aww... look at us playing in the snow for the first time.

Yeah. You can sure as heck bet that this happy little party didn't last long.

 Most of the time it was more like this. Disgust... while Kelsi's just plain happy for no reason as usual.

So, about two or three weeks pass and Michaela decides it's time to move her car for the first time since the snow came, and I decide that I'm going to go help her.

Now Michaela doesn't have a snow scraper. In fact, she didn't even know what one was before she came to Provo. 

"Hey what's that guy using on is car over there?"

"Are you kidding me? That's a snow scraper! You don't know what a snow scraper is!"

Um... Hello?! We don't even know what snow is!!! We're from Vegas. People just don't get that I guess.

So anyways, we found some rubber spatulas and went out to remove the foot of snow from the top of her car. So we spend close to 30 minutes scraping snow off the hood, then the windshield, and then the top with those stupid little rubber spatulas that were like three inches long! And yes.. we did it in the wrong order. Maybe if we had started from the top of the car... and then moved to the bottom it wouldn't have taken so much time! Whatever... and just maybe if we had sucked it up and used our stinkin' arms instead of those spatulas, we would've gotten more off at a time. But hey, hindsight is 20/20 right?

So finally.. finally we get all the snow off of her car and the windshield has defrosted and the windshield wipers are no longer frozen to the glass. Then she puts the car in reverse, and we don't go anywhere. Immediately the panic sets in. Like oh crap.. what's going on?! Then Michaela says it...

"Tanisha I think my car is frozen to the ground"

Oh crap oh crap oh crap. I mean... it makes sense. My TA the other day told us that his car was frozen to the ground and he wouldn't be able to use it until spring (I realize upon further reflection that he was probably joking about this and maybe I shouldn't take everything people say so literally). So then I go outside to take a look. As she tries to accelerate backwards the tires stay in place. That must be it. She's frozen to the ground. So I come up with a solution as fast I can.... Canadians!!! Some of our friends are from Canada. They clearly know more about situations like this than we do. So, we run to enlist their help. 

We get up to their apartment and Connor (one of the Canadians), Derek, and their roommate Osvaldo agree to help us out. So they put on gloves and jackets and come outside to help us out. Meanwhile I'm just thinking about how hilarious this situation is because let's be real. Who else would this happen to but us? The snow-stupid girls from Las Vegas!  We arrive at the car and Connor says he wants to get in to see what's going on. So, he turns on the car... and turns off the emergency break. The emergency break!!! You've got to be joking!! I mean... I figured that it's only common sense to take off your emergency break so I didn't even consider that would be an issue. 

I look at Michaela and she's stunned. She can't even talk. It's all coming out like "But I always... the emergency break.... I don't... I always put it down... I can't". We say thanks for the help through their laughter at us, and get in the car to begin the drive of shame. I thought that it was absolutely hilarious. Michaela... not so much. She was embarrassed beyond belief. We figured out what happened though, and for the sake of Michaela's dignity I shall explain.

When Michaela starts her car, she puts down her parking break immediately. That day, when we got in the car, it was to turn it on and defrost the windows while we worked.. not to drive away. So, she didn't put down the parking break. Then, after working for thirty minutes in the cold, we got in the car to drive away and her instincts told her that she would've put down the parking break when she first turned the car on because she always does that.....

Anyways, she didn't. Should've checked that out before we jumped to some ridiculous conclusion. I'm just grateful we had some good friends around to help us out ya know? And I don't think they'll hold it over our heads for too long.

.....Forever isn't that long... right?