A toddler’s great-grandparents drove almost 100 miles with snow in the back of their truck so their youngest family member could experience it for the first time.
Russ Furse and Carol Nelson, from California in the US, drove from Lake Arrowhead to Huntington Beach with their pick-up truck piled high with snow for one-year-old Carter.
The drive took the couple almost two hours, but the couple were determined to bring the toddler his very first sight of snow.Â
Russ and Carol became great-grandparents for the third time after their grandson Alex Chavers, 31, and his fiancé Jesse Rood, 25, had their third child.
They had planned to visit their grandson and his family, so when it snowed they decided to bring it to them.
And so Russ, a retired police lieutenant, drove from Lake Arrowhead to Huntington Beach with his pickup truck packed full of bright white snow.
Jesse, a stay-at-home mother, said: ‘It filled about 75% of the bed of the pickup truck, so we guess about 600-700lbs of snow.
‘The baby had never seen the snow before and they were coming to visit us anyways so they brought it down for all the kids to play.’
Carter, one, and his siblings Jacob and Adam Chavers, 10 and 9, had a blast.
Jesse added: ‘All the kids absolutely loved it. They all were playing snowball fight, running around we even built a mini snowman. Carter was feeling the snow and was amazed by it. He was laughing and ended up even throwing a little snowball at his big brothers.’
