It’s nighttime and your skin soaks in the warmth from the fireplace as you sink deeper into your couch. You watch the soundless snowflakes gracefully fall, shimmering in the moonlight. The sweet, rich taste of hot cocoa warms your mouth and eases your tense body. The creamy marshmallows floating on top give your lips a sticky kiss.
You are now outside and a smile spreads across your face, gazing up at the milky sky and feeling the frozen atmosphere, turning your nose and cheeks rosy-red. You glance up and stick out your tongue as a snowflake decides to land and slowly melt in your mouth. Your breath fogs up the chilled air as your eyes capture each moment, cherishing the sparkling scenery of pale snow covering the mountains, trees, and under your feet. You feel like a fairy, dancing around in a shaken snow globe. Your soft earmuffs squeeze your ears, wool mittens hug your hands, and boots squish in the ground making footprints wherever you step.
It’s winter, the season of lavish-tasting lattes, the fresh scent of pine trees, and pretty snowflakes falling from above. There is a wide selection of activities to do during the season including taking an enchanting trip to the snow in Lake Tahoe or Yosemite. While there, you can ski, snowboard, go sledding, or just lay to sink into the featherlike snow and create a snow angel. In the cold weather, twirl on an ice skating rink, have a snowball fight, or construct a lopsided snowman to fall in love with the frosty months.
While spending time with family or friends, have a competitive game night playing board games, awfully singing karaoke music, watching scary movies, or going out to restaurants to try new plates of food.
You thought bikini season was over? Pull on that bathing suit and turn up the heater for your hot tub! Let your body soak in the sizzling water, letting the jets relieve your tight muscles.
Enjoy a nice evening sitting around a bonfire roasting marshmallows that will be squeezed into graham crackers and dripping with chocolate.
Visit a local bakery and let your mouth water, digging your fork into chocolate-drizzled crepes. Devouring the gooey syrup, juicy strawberries, and whipped cream on top, so light and fluffy you thought they might just float off the plate and join the clouds in the sky.
A great opportunity to bond with family or friends and have a fun and messy competition is to participate in a cookie decorating contest. Get your game face on and timers ready to decorate the sugar cookies soon to be covered in colorful frosting, icing, sprinkles, confetti, marshmallows, and gumdrops.
Bake cookies and cakes with popular flavors like vanilla, caramel, snickerdoodle, peanut butter, chocolate chip, and red velvet. Other flavors may include shortbread, cocoa, chestnut, toffee, orange, and pomegranate.
Some delicious drinks that will give your soul a warm hug include salted caramel and white hot chocolate, sugar cookie, chestnut and caramel brulée lattes, London fog, and orange spice mulled teas.
So snuggle up or kick on those boots to enjoy this mystical and magical time of year!
