in the meadow, we can build a snowman
She didn't know what to pick. Kneeling on the floor in front of the games closet, Veronica inspected the choices at hand and had no idea what the difference were, aside from the obvious visual ones. It wasn't so much that all the sleds looked the same to her -- that bear sled definitely didn't look like anything she had expected, which kind of made it tempting -- as it was that she didn't know what she was supposed to use.
She had never expected playing in the snow to be complicated, just cold. Lying on the floor in a pile beside her were a knit cap, a scarf, gloves, and the jacket she'd been keeping in her room. Since it didn't look like the cold was going away anytime soon, she had wanted to be prepared. The snowball fight with Jim and Pam had given her a taste of the fun she could have and she'd been a little bit excited about sledding with Sam, but the later events of that day had put a damper on her plans -- the kind of damper that involved avoiding people and generally Not Liking the World.
Piracy had lifted her spirits, though, so here she was. Sitting down further, she crossed her legs and tilted her head to the side, and examined the closet's contents. It almost made her sorry the trampoline had disappeared -- a snowball fight on and around that would have been unspeakably awesome.
Veronica tugged one of the saucers forward to look at more closely. So was this better or worse than the curving one? How did it compare to the flat thing? And, most importantly, how well would a sled shaped like a blue bear really work and had anyone yet shown it to Stephen Colbert?
[The California girl is learning a taste for playing in the snow. Old friends and new, come help her out.]