Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Post-Blizzard Thrills

Because of Saturday's blizzard, most local schools were closed, hence I was suddenly face-to-face with three additional days of vacation before I could fly home to be with the family.

While the thought of "don't you wish you had booked an earlier flight" was expressed by many, the truth of the matter is, had I booked it, I would have been stuck anyway, and had the "darn snow" not come, I would not have had these three extra days, SO I am happy with the situation... no complaints about three days to get things done that the hustle and bustle of everyday life does not generally allow, such as...
  • Updating my blog ;)
  • Christmas visits to friends with Adrienne
  • Shoveling the driveway/street and reviving our cars of 24 inches of snow (Aubrey and I were joined by our new found friends (our neighbors) to help tackle part of the road)... It was actually really fun to shovel--- I think it might not be as fun if it was like this day-after-day, but it's sure a novelty here :)
  • creating tutorials for my students
  • going to the temple with Cara!
  • DC monuments running in the snow... I repeat, I just never tire of this running route- our Nation's Capitol is Beautiful!
  • Christmas runs to the local airports
  • and, you know, "those" lerking errands

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Winter Wonderland

The weather man was spot on! The big Dec 2009 storm started right at 9:00pm on Friday and did not cease until 11pm Saturday.

By late morning I measured 8 inches with my trusty ruler
By afternoon, my ruler was nolonger of use because the snow depth surpassed the ruler's abilities.
By 7:30pm I brought out the tape measured and measured 21 inches!
By 11pm I was too tired to measure again, so I will leave it to the news report... 24 inches!

While it was fun to watch the fun from the inside, it was even more fun to...
-Shovel the driveway of 15 inches so we could pile in Adrienne's car and try to find a good sledding hill
-Adrienne's windshield wipers broke so we turned around, headed to Kmart in an unsuccessful attempt to get some help from one of the few open stores, so we went home
-Run 10 miles up the middle of the local snow-covered roads
-Visit neighbors in the middle of the storm
-Make Snow Angels and Do flips in the powder in the front lawn- I've never done this at home before!!!