Snow!

Your location: Somewhere cold and foreign
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: You have two days to get sufficiently settled in to deal with an unusually large snow storm (for the area, not in general).
The specifics: social security office attended, home phone connected, food bought, car hired, warm enough clothes for everyone (your special challenge will be gloves).
Your reward: Snow! Making snowmen with salad servers for arms! Sliding down hills on cardboard! Digging with snow shovels!
And the snow still lingers three days later...