Snow, glorious snow!

I can call snow glorious now that we don't deal with it for 9 months out of the year. You wouldn't really think snow would differer. Snow is snow, right? But Utah snow is incomparable to Alaska snow. Utah snow is wet and you can build a snow man. Alaska snow is powdery and you can't even shape it into a snow ball.
I have to admit that even as an adult when I see fresh fallen snow I have a strong need to grab a handful and eat it. Mmmm. I ate my weight in snow every winter, easily. My best friend Tasha and I would lead expeditions and play outside in the snow all day long. One winter we had this grape, remember those huge glass grapes that were all the rage in the 70's? If you twisted just right they'd pop right off. If you chose the right grape that was in the back your mom or grandma, would most likely never noticed. We spent an entire winter hiding that grade and then finding it. Sometime in January we lost the grape. We hid it and never found it, well we did, but not until spring.
The real star of winter was icicles. If you could get an icicle off the house (not the car, those where too dirty) you were golden and could suck on the icicle all day long. We would watch the icicles on the sides of our houses grow until they were long enough for us to reach, then they were ours.
I hope my children build memories like that. Maybe that's why I go against all parenting intuition and let them pack a snow ball and munch on it for an hour?