The snow is here...finally.

Well. that was an interesting last 6 hours. It all started about 4:15. I was in my office that looks out over Elliot Bay and saw a really dark cloud to the Northwest. I said to a co-worker "I bet that is snow." By the time I cheked out the live dopler radar on king5.com, the co-worker said, "Yep...its snowing!" With that, I checked the metro bus schedule and the 54 was coming by at 4:30. I packed up quick and got on the bus, one of the last open seats. Thing were moving along pretty well, but I was noticing more and more snow on the side of the road, especially on the West Seattle bridge. Unfortunately we ran into some traffic on the final small hill before Alaska st on 35th, and got stuck. It was slick enough, that the bus couldnt get up the hill. I bailed on the bus and walked about 5 blocks to where Steph could pick me up. Fortunately, I made it home around 5:30. Not too bad. Talking with some co-workers, some had 2-3 hours commutes.

Since then, we watched it keep snowing and snowing and snowing...at least in our neighborhood. Strange thing is we talked with friends in the North part of WS and they hardly had any snow. All in all I think we have close to 3 inches of the white stuff. The adventure of the night was an evening walk down to the Morgan Junction Starbucks...White Chocolate Mochas for Mom and Dad, Hot Chocolate for Maddie and Kenzie. On the last block from home, we decided to end our evening right and build a snowman. It started up on Calif. ave and ended up in our front yard. I worked up a sweat rolling the giant base a block and half. Steph started on the middle section from the corner...meanwhile Maddie was pushing Kenzie in the stroller and "managing" the production. We finally made it to the front yard where the head was formed, and then we topped it off with our snowman kit.





















The question now is, will there be school tomorrow? This is all supposed to freeze and ice over for the next 3-4 days. Should be interesting. We'll let you know how it goes.