Free at last! Free at last!
Wednesday, 31. December 2008, 07:34:01
We've finally gotten our mobility back. Meaning, we can leave the house again, which wasn't an option for ten days leading up to and including Christmas day. How, you might ask, was Seattle's weather from mid-December through Christmas? This picture pretty well sums it up: resolve in the face of unseasonably cold, snowy weather.
We got a bit of snow a week and a half before Christmas. That turned into a bit more snow, which I already covered before. What that post didn't cover, though, was that the snow fell on some wet streets. So we had snow on top of icy streets. That's not such a big deal for me because I can work at home.
Steph, on the other hand, is between school terms; she doesn't have to teach a class until January 5th! In light of that, it was nice being able to hang out at home with the outside world cloaked in white. We walked to the grocery store now and again. The kids enjoyed sledding. Some folks were even skate skiing from place to place. Yeah, it was all quite enchanting for a few days. Then it just kept snowing.
Then the cabin fever kicked in. By the third day, we went to the coffee shop twice a day just to get out of the house. Ashley was no better off. The snow was oftentimes too deep for her to walk at all. Come Christmas Eve, neither Steph nor I had driven our cars in ten days.
The weather forecast was for the snow to finally stop falling and start melting on December 25th. Sure enough, we woke up to see it snowing just one more time! Just the same, we had a great Christmas. We ate roasted salmon and pumpkin pie, drank some Pacific Northwest beers, opened presents, ate some pumpkin pie, called the relatives, then played board games over beers and pumpkin pie.
It wasn't all bad certainly. We managed to catch up on email, take plenty of pictures, get engaged, catch up on sleep, drink some beer, and eat some pumpkin pie.
We got a bit of snow a week and a half before Christmas. That turned into a bit more snow, which I already covered before. What that post didn't cover, though, was that the snow fell on some wet streets. So we had snow on top of icy streets. That's not such a big deal for me because I can work at home.
Steph, on the other hand, is between school terms; she doesn't have to teach a class until January 5th! In light of that, it was nice being able to hang out at home with the outside world cloaked in white. We walked to the grocery store now and again. The kids enjoyed sledding. Some folks were even skate skiing from place to place. Yeah, it was all quite enchanting for a few days. Then it just kept snowing.
Then the cabin fever kicked in. By the third day, we went to the coffee shop twice a day just to get out of the house. Ashley was no better off. The snow was oftentimes too deep for her to walk at all. Come Christmas Eve, neither Steph nor I had driven our cars in ten days.
The weather forecast was for the snow to finally stop falling and start melting on December 25th. Sure enough, we woke up to see it snowing just one more time! Just the same, we had a great Christmas. We ate roasted salmon and pumpkin pie, drank some Pacific Northwest beers, opened presents, ate some pumpkin pie, called the relatives, then played board games over beers and pumpkin pie.
It wasn't all bad certainly. We managed to catch up on email, take plenty of pictures, get engaged, catch up on sleep, drink some beer, and eat some pumpkin pie.
WIDGETIZE
Cynthia # 31. December 2008, 10:50
hungryghost # 31. December 2008, 13:27
James # 31. December 2008, 16:59
Ghost: Vancouver got its share of snow, too,
huheh?hungryghost # 31. December 2008, 17:43
James # 31. December 2008, 20:52
hungryghost # 31. December 2008, 20:59