Winterfest 2011

The city I live in is called Ogden. This city gets a bad rap sometimes because it used to be pretty scary. Like, drive-by shootings and gangs and what not. But, now our awesome mayor and city council have decided to clean things up. New businesses are reviving downtown and they have tons of things to do here now. The city is coming back to life. I used to be scared to live here, now I love it.

Today we all got dressed in snow clothes for the Winterfest. They close down the main street downtown and cover it with snow. Then they have all sorts of activities for people to do. My kids loved the tubing hill. They provide tubes and made ramps for the kids to go off of. It was awesome and then below they had snow machines (or snow mobiles if you're from anywhere other than AK) racing each other. It made me miss Alaska. :) They had vendors and a 5K and human dog sled races and all sorts of things.

People ask me a lot why we moved up here, now I can say, affordable housing AND community.