Wednesday morning, we had a surprise snowstorm.

By 8:30, I was tweeting about it:

I've never seen such HUGE snowflakes! Watch it snow live: holidayworld.com/visit/construc… #HWSS twitter.com/HolidayWorld/s…

— Holiday World (@HolidayWorld) February 13, 2013

A bit later, Nathan grabbed a camera and headed out to take these flakey photos.

"Go toward the light!" Heading up Raven's lift hill.

And around the swoop over Lake Rudolph:

Then back into the station:

You can tell how much snow we received by looking on the seats of these benches. (Wonder if that's where the term "benchmark" originated?)

And finally, a look past our Christmas shop to our ever-glowing water tower:

Alas, the snow had melted by mid-afternoon. But it sure was pretty while it lasted.