I also would say consider yourself lucky, when you don't have snow. It's always a pain when you need to go somewhere. At my parents home we often have snow and at CERN and Davos, where I need to go in two weeks. Once, in Davos it snowed so much, that you could step out of the first floor. ;-)

One thing I always wanted to do was playing with a lion and a few month ago this wish was really fulfilled. I played with a cute little white lion cub for more than an hour and it was really fun. Now I can happily die. :-)
The only thing left is to do a proper (>1 week) Safari in Africa, preferably somewhere in Kenya, or Tanzania. For some time I was in Namibia, but I didn't even saw a single lion. That was really a bit of disappointing.