Friday, December 11, 2009

It's a Marshmallow World in the Winter...









Well we finally had a blizzard this week, even the locals were calling it a "storm." We got about a foot of snow between Tuesday and Wednesday, and it has gotten so much colder! I never knew it could be this cold outside. During the day it's been around seven to ten degrees, and at night and in the mornings about two to five below. Ryan had to shovel the entire driveway to get his car out for work, and I drove for the first time today since Monday. There isn't much ice on the roads now, mainly packed snow, but it's still kind of slippery to drive on, but I'm trying to get used to it since the roads are going to be like this for a long time. It's really weird driving on roads that are completely white and have no visible lines or lanes!I feel like a stranger in a strange land, but I got really excited when the snow was falling hard because it was so pretty and looked like glitter flying everywhere. I did some shoveling myself today, which is another first for me! The cellar doors that are in the ground and lead to the laundry room were under a huge mound, but I found them eventually! I had to shovel a path from the back door to the cellar. I never thought I would have to work that hard to do laundry! My back hurts...
Ryan took his final last Friday and did very well, and next week he has more classroom time but no tests. At the ugly Christmas sweater party last weekend, almost all of the guys I talked to in Ryan's class told me that they think he's one of the smartest in the class. (Of course, Ryan thinks he just done a great job of fooling everyone!)
We fly to Atlanta next Saturday, and are very excited to do so! Enjoy the pictures of the snow, hopefully tomorrow we will be out playing in it! We are looking for a hill where we can do some sledding!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Holiday Happenings



The snow has finally arrived here in Owatonna, and it has gotten so much colder than it was in the past month. I just looked at the forecast, and the low on Wednesday is 10 degrees! The first day it snowed, I was out driving and had a pretty scary ice incident which included my car sliding around on a hill. My wheels started spinning and I had to just put my flashers on a sit there! Luckily, a cop came up behind me and pushed me back off of the ice. He laughed when I told him I was from Georgia and had no idea what I was doing. Thankfully the salt trucks and sweepers have taken care of the roads now, but we are supposed to get a foot of snow this week, starting tonight.

We had a great weekend of Christmas festivities, starting with Friday night and the Village of Yesteryear. We ventured out in the 16 degree weather to see Christmas in the Village, which is in the Village of Yesteryear. The village is a group of historical buildings including a chapel, log house, general store, and school house. It was decorated for Christmas Friday night, and we went out and toured the buildings and sang Christmas carols in the church. The general store had really good hot wassail and some Norwegian foods like Lefse that I had not seen before. Saturday night we went to an ugly Christmas sweater party at our friends Benji and Ashlee's house, and it was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from this weekend, and once the snow piles up I'll post some pictures of that too!