SPECIAL CONTESTS WITH WHIPPY

BUILD A SNOWMAN! Every tour throughout January if you win a tour, you win Head, Body, or Sticks & Stones. Three wins--you have built a snowman!
Top two players with the most snowmen for the month win $20 E-GIFT CARD, 2ND PLACE WINS $15 E-GIFT CARD.

STAFF SNOWBALL BASH! 1 Staff member a day will chosen. Name will be on event page as well as posted in the CHAT BOX!
Win a tour that staff member hosts and you have hit them with a snowball. If that staff member wins their own tour,
they get double points. Most Snowball Hits: Choice of Diamond Membership or $25 Gift Card!

GAME OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY WILL BE PRESSURE. WINNER OF MOST PRESSURE TOURS WINS 1 MONTH DIAMOND.

IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!! IF YOU WON ANY OF WHIPPY'S EVENTS IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO WIN THIS MONTH!!

SPECIAL THANKS TO:*WHISPER & *WHIPPY FOR FUNDING JANUARY GAMES!

  SNOW CREAM RECIPE

Ingredients: 2 cups evaporated milk, half-and-half, or cream; 1 cup sugar; 2 tablespoons vanilla extract; 1 gallon snow, collected in a clean bowl while falling

When it starts to snow, place a large, clean bowl outside to collect flakes. Joy is added to the recipe if you include at least one small child.

When the bowl is full, mix in sugar and vanilla. Stir in just enough milk for desired consistency. Serve at once.


Answers to the 12 Nics of SF Christmas Contest:

1. Snap cookies, monkey bread, sweet rolls, and other holiday treats are made with THIS spice.--Cynammon_Girl
2. Santa might be described as THIS because of the area from which he departs every year to bring presents to all.--northernboy
3. THIS beloved character joins his friends to wish them a very merry pooh year.--Its_Tigger
4-5. Sometimes THIS player's nic combines with THIS player's nic to bring VERY cold holiday weather.--Polar_Vort3x & Jet_
6. One of THESE was heard by poor shepherds in their fields many years ago near Bethlehem.--Snick_Angel
7. On the night before Christmas, not a soul was stirring, not even THIS tiny creature.--Spookymouse
8. You might hear THIS while dashing through the snow.--Jingles1963
9. You might find THIS hanging from your eaves on a cold holiday morning.--Ice_Crystal
10. Before wrapping your gifts, you might want to put them in THIS!--boxxxyboxxx
11. Don't forget to leave some of THESE out for Santa!--sug4r_c00ki3_2
12 . Mr. Skellington gave us THIS before Christmas.--_NIGHTMARE_

LITERARY CORNER

The Snow Fairy

Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,
Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky,
Whirling fantastic in the misty air,
Contending fierce for space supremacy.
And they flew down a mightier force at night,
As though in heaven there was revolt and riot,
And they, frail things had taken panic flight
Down to the calm earth seeking peace and quiet.
I went to bed and rose at early dawn
To see them huddled together in a heap,
Each merged into the other upon the lawn,
Worn out by the sharp struggle, fast asleep.
The sun shone brightly on them half the day,
By night they stealthily had stol'n away.

And suddenly my thoughts then turned to you
Who came to me upon a winter's night,
When snow-sprites round my attic window flew,
Your hair disheveled, eyes aglow with light.
My heart was like the weather when you came,
The wanton winds were blowing loud and long;
But you, with joy and passion all aflame,
You danced and sang a lilting summer song.
I made room for you in my little bed,
Took covers from the closet fresh and warm,
A downful pillow for your scented head,
And lay down with you resting in my arm.
You went with Dawn. You left me ere the day,
The lonely actor of a dreamy play.
-Claude McKay

Dust of Snow

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
--Robert Frost