That sounds delightful, if only in its novelty-- people tell me Seattle doesn't get that kind of kind of snow experience very often.

(People tell me other things about Seattle, and I'm never sure what to believe.)

I see the Ballard Playground on the Google Earth; whereabouts are you? I judge from the post above that you don't live on a boat-- an exotic lifestyle about which I have fantasized uselessly for years. Good thing I live far from a coast, or I might actually attempt it.