Blizzard 2009... A Tale of Survival. hehe

I can't believe it....just can not believe it! Athens, Georgia is reporting over 6in of snow for March 1st, 2009. Brian and I woke up Sunday morning to, no surprise, rain...and lots of it. We put Bonnie and Izzy outside to play once it had stopped pouring and next thing we knew it was sleeting, and within minutes, snowing!!


All in all, it was a fantastic day! Brian and I slept in and then went to meet some friends at The Grit for a fabulous brunch. Of course, I feel as though I ordered the wrong thing once everyone else received their meals, but at least I have a reason to go back now!

After brunch, Brian and I went to pick up my car that I had left downtown the previous night. By this point, the snow was not to deep but it was really coming down! Like a true gentleman, Brian allowed me to climb inside my car and warm up while he scrapped all the snow off the exterior. I’m so lucky! :)

Brian went back to his house to take care of some business, while I returned home to let Bonnie and Izzy have their first frolic in the snow! To me, watching them in the snow was hilarious! Though, until they realized that they could dig up the snow with their paws (they are both diggers! Holes everywhere!), they didn’t seem to pay any attention to the snow at all! Izzy simply searched for her beloved frisbee and Bonnie chased imaginary squirrels, as usual.

It’s a very rare occasion when Brian and I get the same day off, so we wanted to make sure that we got to spend the entire day together. While debating whose house to celebrate Snow Day at, the power cut off! We decided on my house because I have all the board games…and because I’m lazy and didn’t want to drive over there! On his way over, Brian stopped by the little house that we are renting this summer and took some pictures to show me! The snow just the house that much more cute! :)

While the puppies played in the back, Brian and I decided to build a snowman and discovered that we are not very talented in the art of snowman making! Plus, we didn’t have any of the proper items to decorate the snowman with once we were finished (carrot, scarf, hat, pieces of coal) so we decided to use sticks from fallen trees and spray paint! Hehe. Brian even gave him some hair! In good old Calvin and Hobbes tradition, we wanted to create a scene of our snowman doing some bad activity, so Brian decided to create a snowman homicide. It was hilarious and extremely creepy! The pictures are way too graphic to display here! We decided that if anyone complained we would just play stupid and say that we had no idea what happened and that we started off with two snowmen and woke up to one snowman eating the other…yep, a cannibal snowman.

After we were finished, we headed inside to the powerless house to warm up and dry off. We decided to play Scrabble by candle light (how romantic) and prayed the power would come back on because we were both getting hungry! P.S. I killed Brian in Scrabble, just like I did in poker and bowling. :) The power never came and Papa John’s had forfeited to the snow, so we decided to brave the weather and head off in search of food. It was just like a waste land! The snow had turned a 4 lane highway into a two way street. Cars had been abandoned, there was no power anywhere, and anytime you saw people walking they were walking in line behind each other, heads down, and huddled…just like in some arctic country. Luckily Kroger was open, although the parking lot was a mess! No parking lines could be seen and people were just parking everywhere! It’s a good thing I love chaos! So we grabbed some snacks and headed back to the house! The power was still out so we ate and decided to head to bed for lack of anything else to do. It was so cold that we could see our breath inside, so we bundled up and made sure the puppies were warm enough and crawled in bed. What a great way to end the day…snuggled up with Brian after an extremely fun and memorable day! :)