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Most of the world is celebrating the winter holidays snow-lessly, but when you're a celebrity, you get to escape to one of the few places in the country that's actually a winter wonderland. Just like Mariah Carey, who's probably currently sledding down a hill while wearing Dior snowboots, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris avoided unseasonably warm temperatures in LA and NYC by finding snowy asylum in Colorado.
To celebrate — or perhaps, as anyone in their position would have done, rub it in our faces — they built a snowman. After posting a photo of the building in progress, Taylor, Calvin, and her younger brother Austin Swift posed with the final result, which appears to be nearly six feet tall, if Taylor's "Rude-olph" beanie is to be used as a measuring stick.
"Really proud of ourselves over here," she captioned the photo. Us too, Taylor.