It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)

If you haven't heard yet, the East Coast got slammed with a record-breaking snow storm yesterday. We got about 16 inches of snow and are effectively snowed in. Clearly this wouldn't be such a big deal in Utah, but since DC isn't used to this much snow, everyone is in a panic. Sam was supposed to work yesterday, but the Metro shut down, and a lot of the roads haven't been plowed yet. I think some of the native Virginians are worried the end of the world is near. But I think the snow is kind of beautiful-- even though we're bored out of our minds. Even church was canceled! I think that happened once or twice when I was growing up in Colorado when it snowed FOUR feet. (Not a measly one or two-- you silly Virginians.)

We took Bria out into the blizzard, just to get some fresh air. She doesn't have snow clothes, but I just wrapped her in a large garbage bag, and plopped her down in the snow. She didn't even reach the ground, but the snow was up to her waist. She absolutely loved it. She was pretty sad when we had to come in because my hands were frozen.



You can see the snow creeping up our window in the bottom right. Some of our neighbors windows were half covered in snow drifts.


This isn't our car, but you can see how deep it was getting. This was still several hours before it stopped snowing.
Bria was definitely rejuvenated by playing in the snow.

She later expressed her enthusiasm by dropping an egg on the floor. Good thing we were out of paper towels (with no way of buying any).

We're just glad we weren't planning on traveling this week! I feel so sad for all the people whose flights were canceled this weekend. A lot of people won't be able to reschedule their flights before Christmas. Thank goodness we are boring and just staying put for the holidays!