Known but Unknown

It was a long drive from my house, I don't remember when but the once seaside town had become a forest blanketed in snow. I've never known snow. I've lived my life far away from the stuff, well... not willingly, my mom says that she can't take the cold, literally, she says that when it gets too cold it's like being stabbed through the chest from the inside. At the same time I've never really left my mom side, I guess that makes me a Momma's boy. I looked out the window again the log cabin my cousins constantly praise suddenly appeared before me, my aunt looked at me with a smile, almost letting out a chuckle. My aunt insisted I go with her to this retreat, she'd normally takes her kids but this year all three of them where stuck at school for the summer. Summer, right it's summer I sorta forgot since all I see is snow. I'm reminded just how far I am from home and get a little sick.

My aunt opens my door to let me out and I half jump into what I though would be a puff but was more of a creak. I said this before but I've never seen snow in real life, only on TV and the movies. It looks so soft, but it's crunchier then i thought. I picked up a bit of it and held it, I not sure what I was expecting maybe something like cotton candy but this was definitely not that. It was snowing lightly has we headed into our cabin and as I was taking off my jacket it occurred to me how wet it was. Right, right snow is just water, obviously. It makes sense but at the same time it doesn't look like to much landed on me. Why is this so strange to me, it's just snow. Just snow, I think to myself trying to accept how different it really is for me. My aunt looks at me as if I did something wrong "Don't take your jacket off yet I haven't even shown the rest of the retreat" they have all kinds of stuff. I put my jacket back on and she leads me back into the frozen world I never knew was so foreign.