Blizzard, Christmas, New Year's, and Failed Trip to KY

The holidays are over and Ryan has his first full week of work in almost a month starting tomorrow. Classes also start for me tomorrow. So it is a good time to catch you up on our December and New Year adventures. We didn't have time to post much about the blizzard, too busy playing in the snow, but the pictures speak for themselves. There was a LOT of snow and it was fun for the weekend, but not so fun once we had to get back to reality/work. We ventured to the city and saw kids sledding down Capitol Hill and dogs going crazy in ~2ft of snow. It was a really fun, cold day. After that we tried to stay inside as much as possible to stay warm.

A few days later we drove to Williamsburg, VA to meet my parents for Christmas and had a really good time. It was very relaxing and a fun, different way to spend Christmas. We explored the Colonial Williamsburg area and spent a lot of time being lazy and eating. :) The town makes Christmas wreaths using only materials available back then, and they were all unique and pretty. The whole town/experience was very interesting and fun. Click here see more Williamsburg pics.



For New Year's we went to one of my friends from school's apartment and rung in the New Year there. It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed meeting some new people. We ate our black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, and the next day we went for a fantastically delicious meal in the city. It was one of my Christmas presents from Ryan and was wonderful (pic before dinner below).



We also went to the alumni club's viewing party for the Orange Bowl (and unfortunately bball game too) on Tuesday night. We had a good time but were definitely disappointed in the outcome.

This weekend we were supposed to drive to KY to attend Ryan's longtime friend's wedding, and Ryan was supposed to be a groomsman. We woke up at 4:00am, but the traffic reports from the "Arctic Blast" were unfavorable so we postponed leaving until about 9:30. The roads through VA were very well treated and cleaned, but unfortunately the second (literally) we got into WV the conditions deteriorated. We tried our hardest but about half way through WV decided it was not a smart or safe decision to keep going forward especially with more snow starting to fall. So we turned around and spent the night in Lexington, VA then came the rest of the way home yesterday. We are very sorry to have missed the wedding, but are looking forward to seeing pictures. I bet they look like a Winter Wonderland Wedding. The rest of our weekend has been spent watching GT beat DUKE, football and buying wiper fluid fit for freezing weather!