My Toes Still Burn

Finding a place to build my fort: 

The neighborhood I live in made it very hard to find a place where you can use wood or even leaves. I noticed there was a lot of snow in my backyard so I stuck to that. 

Building the Fort: 

I started off by putting a small sheet of plastic on the ground to serve as a floor for the fort. I then used a shovel and brought a bunch of the snow in a pile. The most frustrating part was how the snow was soft. This made it hard to shape or to build up on. After each layer of snow, I would walk on it or lay down on it to try to make it more dense/hard or at least stick together. 

After doing this for a solid hour, I finally got a somewhat round shape. The snow got a little harder but to prevent it from crumbling, I put a thin sheet of plastic (you can see it in the picture below if you look closely) and then added more snow on top of it. To be completely honest, I don't know if adding the plastic did anything but it did not fall apart so that good! 

When I finished making a huge pile of snow, I started to dig a hole from the side until I got the depth I wanted. This took a while because I didn't want the top to fall down so I went slowly. 

Here is a picture of me enjoying the sun while my fingers and toes were frozen (:  I do not recommend this blog idea, my toes still burn when I walk, maybe if the weather was a little warmer