like falling in a cloud

Last night I could not sleep, Dad saw me wriggling around and asked if I was still awake… I answered back yes, they told me to look out the window, and I stumbled at of bed and to the window and saw the snow falling!

Amy got up all enthusiastic this morning because there was snow everywhere - she was out playing in the snow by the time I was out of bed. It was fantastic when you fell (or Dad tackled you) it didn’t hurt. It was like falling in a cloud! We made snow angels (just like we do at the beach in summer with sand), snowmen, snow caves & snow balls! We spent hours playing in the snow. Hard to say exactly how much but Dad reckoned there must be almost a foot of snow - Dad was out helping us with all the building (& snowball fights of course!!) The snow is so soft, the only snow I have felt is hard snow, this was like icing sugar. We were lucky because there were plows plowing the snow in the carpark so we could get out! It was such a cool experience.

You would not know how tough it is to drive in a snow storm. I have never seen so much snow in my life Dad found it hard driving in the snow because he could not see anything. It was cool we got to stop in the middle of the freeway because the wipers were covered in snow, no one minded, in fact they all were stopping on the freeway if they needed to.

We drove over the Bay Bridge in high winds but we got there safe and sound but they would not let us over the Chesapeake Bridge/tunnel because the winds were so high. They shooed us over to the carpark till the winds died down, we ended staying in the parking lot overnight!

Check out the photos and video of us playing in the snow... also a couple showing the conditions Dad had to drive in! Almost Christmas time now, can't wait to see our cousins again. Love from Deanna

[ed... yep driving in a blizzard was definately one of life's new experiences for this editor. I've driven in snow a cople of times before but not this much snow!! I talked to a couple of people before heading off & concluded that the roads would all be ploughed and passable so long as you took it quietly... which turned out to be the case. It's quite handy if you can find the odd truck to tuck in behind. That Bay Bridge was something else - wickedly windy & snow coming sideways, did only 20-25mph over the bridge and still got buffeted around heaps. Rest of the first 2-3 hours was no more than about 35mph so it was pretty slow going.

As we drove south the amount of snow around got less and less and within a few hours we were out of it altogether. Funny to drive through all that weather then get told at the toll gate @ Chesapeake that it was too windy to go thru. Certainly not as windy as earlier in the day... and no snow, however rules is rules I guess. We were planning to stop for the night just the other side of the bridge anyway so no real time lost.]