When the snowfall finally let up on Saturday night, neigbors started to emerge from their houses on Sunday to do what they could to dig out. This is the view of our street. There was so much snow piled up (nearly covering our neighbor’s police cruiser), and it wasn’t until Monday evening that we had out first plow truck come through to try to clear a pass down the street.
Mark did the shovelling, the kids played and dug snow forts. Cayenne and I took an exploring walk to see what, if anything, had been plowed out, and talk about exercise! Trying to walk through three feet of untouched snow (and deeper parts, for that matter, from all the drifting) was tough, and Cayenne practically had to swim through parts of it just to get through.
Initially there was almost too much snow to get any good sledding going, but by Monday, we were out on a sunny and relatively mild day for some great sledding and fun. We went with neighbor friends, so the girls had a great time sledding and playing for a couple hours.
I even got into the action a bit and attemped to ride down the hill on my feet like they were trying to do. I didn’t get too far before the inevitable wipeout came. It was fun though.
Everyone had a great time, and by the end of the day everyone was exhausted.
The kids got out of school the entire week, so it’s been snow play, time with cousins, and a trip out to Mousey and Poppy’s to let Cayenne and Maggie have a snow play day while the girls got to spend some time in Mousey’s art room making beautiful cards.
We’ve gotten reports that they’re headed back to school on Monday, so the January vacation is about to end, but they still have the weekend to eek out a bit more fun before reality potentially hits again Monday morning.
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