Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing well. I am cold. Everyone's cold. Wild week. You're cold. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. The pets are cold. The kids are cold. We're all cold. Yeah. Florida's still under snow.

Yes. Parts of it. My mom keeps sending me pictures of like the daily. I actually went to go visit her. Mandy knows this, but I went to visit my parents with my kids. When we learned that there was going to be Florida snow, I didn't go until the morning of. I wrote Mandy and was like, hey, I'm thinking of going up to visit my family. But at that time, they were predicting like eight to ten inches. So I was like, you can't be 10 inches off, right? Like, there's going to be something. And I fully supported you going up there and doing this. You absolutely did. But I also, in the back of my mind, I was like, she does realize that she's driving literally into a snowstorm to get there.

No.

That was truly the best part because I text Mandy at one point when we stopped somewhere and I was like, they're closing down the turn bike in a few hours.

She's like, you're driving into a snowstorm.

And so I did have to stay an extra day because we literally could not get out. That was a very weird feeling. Again, the weirdest thing ever, you text me that day and you're like, we're snowed in, so I can't make it back to Orlando area today. Yeah, couldn't even get out of there. It was wild. It was, I think they ended up getting like four inches, but then parts of it froze and all kinds of stuff. But I was telling Mandy, too, it was the coolest

thing ever because my dad's 70, my mom 65, sorry to shout out your ages on here. They won't listen.

But neither of them had ever seen snow in their entire lives. I can't believe that.

My dad, I can definitely believe.

My mom, he doesn't like to travel.

My mom, not as much.

But yeah, they just, it was, it was like seeing kids see it.

Like, really, it was just, like, so magical to see adults.

Like, I don't know, opening your mouth to have snowflakes fall on it. And we went sledding because we had like the bottom of a, it was just all homemade stuff that we were doing. But it was just, like, I, it was like, oh my gosh, I'll have these members forever. And my kids were there, of course. So like them interacting. I don't know. It was just, I was like, we're snowed course so like them interacting I don't know it was

just I was like we're snowed in this sucks I don't even care like I just no I totally get it yeah

that's awesome I think I have actually mentioned kind of something or said something similar before

on the show but I feel like when you are an adult there's so few opportunities to have like a brand new experience like that, like never seen snow before. Like that's, and most of us, you know, experience that or some of us experience that when we're really young, you know, so it's like it doesn't quite, you don't get the same effect. But I feel like it's super cool because it's so rare to get to see something for the first time when you're 65, 70 years old.

Like that's not, you know, so I feel like how that is such a special thing.

I'm so happy that you went up there and got to do that.

I know.

I was like emotional looking through my pictures of my dad with his first snowball. It was just, I don't even think I could talk about it anymore because it really did like just, it's like, the last thing I'll say about it is I was listening to a podcast

the other day and they were saying how it's your parents first time being human to. I think it was

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