Dallas Enjoys True 'Snow Day'

DALLAS - Classes were canceled for more than 500,000 children, giving them a four-day weekend thanks to Presidents Day on Monday.

As a result, the young and young-at-heart spent the afternoon making snowmen, snow forts, snow angels and just about every other snow-related activity you can think of.

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"I was like, yes!" said 14-year-old Ashleigh Hartsock, a high school student in Frisco whose Facebook page was going crazy with messages rejoicing over the school closure.

Several kids at a Frisco park attempted to sled down a slight incline that passes for a hill in the Dallas area. Wearing knit gloves covered in plastic baggies and grocery bags over their tennis shoes, they rode garbage can lids, tops to plastic containers and pieces of cardboard.

"If they have to miss a school day, at least they can get out in it and have some fun," said Lauren Harbour, whose children, ages 10, 8 and 6, were trying out the various makeshift sleds.