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For someone that grew up in the desert, the idea of playing in the snow is odd. In my simple logic when its snow its cold and when it’s cold you better stay at home. Thankfully my daughter and my wife are much healthier, in this respect, than me. We had wonderful weather today, which only mean that the temperature was around 0 Celsius, so we decided to enjoy the city and central park.
Such a decision cannot be taken lightly, as we use to in the past. Beside the fact that Tseela need to approve the plan, which is not trivial at all, We need to get Tseela dressed. Getting Tseela dresses is equal to good training in the gym - its includes restraining her from jumping, running and do whatevershe like at that moment and more challenging is to figure the hell how this tithes thing works ( what can you expect from a man?)
Taking the subway, which is a daily routine, is an endless source of fascination for Tseela. So we got dressed, and went down to the Path train to cross the Hudson River and then took the train uptown to 59^thstreet. Being in a train with a 3 years old child can be devastating experience. They can be extremely demanding, overwhelmed and to loose their temper. Luckily Tseela is used for the train and her behavior is usually OK. We are also trying to use the time for conversation, telling her stories or preparing her for the event We are going to attend. I’m finding this not only very useful, since I have her attention, but very dear. When I’m picking Tseela from Pre-School it is the best time to get from her the information about her day.

The weather was indeed wonderful and the park was as colorful and a live as possible. One cannot impress upon the importance of such park in such urban environment. We walked through small street fair into the park, which was covered with snow. The image of the park in white is simply amazing. The park was full of people walking, running building snow man and obviously ice-skating.
We had to build a snow man of our own. In “We” I mean Tseela and Anne - I participated by standing aside and taking pictures. That is the most I’m willing to do with this freezing wet white substance.The activity of building a snow-man was divided fairly between Anne and Tseela: Anne gathered the snow and shaped it into snow-man while Tseela supervise the event. Both parts concluded successfully and Tseela started her journey into management life as she managed successfully another project.
The rest of the pictures from today can be found here.

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