By: Alaina Valdespino, Staff Writer & Photographer

Growing up I used to ask Santa Clause every year for snow. I had been watching Christmas movies for as long as I could remember and all I wanted was to have a snowball fight with my siblings. It was a silly wish seeing as it doesn’t even snow this far south, being in San Antonio, Texas; so, no surprise when it never came true.

Flash forward to this year, February 14-18, my long-lost childhood dream not only came true, but it came to be a 4-day long reality that I can honestly say was nothing like I imagined it to be.