Snow.....in Vegas?

We left the house around 2:30pm to go downtown to do some Christmas shopping. While pulling out of the garage, I noticed a few snowflakes mixed in with the drizzling rain and we thought that was the extent of the snow we'd see this year - the usual amount. At 5:00, one of the mall clerks told us that all the freeways were shutdown due to snow!!!! This has NEVER happened in Las Vegas. And, for the firs time, our end of the valley was the hardest hit by the storm. So, we were "stranded" at the mall with no route home. You know I was miserable! HA! By the time we got home, it was close to 9pm. We took a picture, but the neighbors told us that a lot of the snow had already melt and there had been much more. The next morning, I bundled up the kids and we played in the snow. This was a foreign experience for them! It took Devin quite a while to figure out how to walk in it. They loved our neighbors snowman, claiming him as their own, and fixed him up a bit since he was melting. The snow on our block lasted almost a week. It made me feel like I was back in Reno for a white Christmas.