Travel Troubles

Before I go any further, the misfortune that follows is in no way a poor reflection of our Christmas

After we had our Christmas present fun I went back to bed for a few hours and then we had a blast playing with our toys. As the day wore on I realized that I needed to go to work (in a manner of speaking... I get the weather data for the school). Usually this is not a big deal, but overnight it had snowed over a foot. Once again, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but this snow was not the normal powder, it was like wet sand.

Our adventure didn't start out well: we got stuck going out of our parking lot, going downhill. Getting stuck while going downhill is never a good sign. Breck got out (barely because the snow was up to the door!) and dug out the tires so that we could escape. Then we decided to go around to the weather station, which is uphill=ridiculous, and we got stuck again. It doesn't look to bad in the picture, but it was... trust me.



After we got unstuck from that one we decided to go home. We got stuck again going into our parking lot. We eventually had to ditch our car about a half mile down the hill and walk home. We were afraid of getting towed, so we went back at 10 o'clock to get our car back. They had already plowed the roads, which made us very nervous. The snowplow luckily went around our car, but that left it buried. Luckily we brought a shovel and dug out our car. It took us about an hour, but the roads were good so we drove home (well, up until the parking lot).

There were two other cars stuck in the entrance... they still hadn't plowed our parking lot! So we spent the next hour and a half digging a path to some parking spots... ugh. But on the plus side, we had a lot of fun out in the snow and we made some new friends!

Whew, we finally got to bed around one that night. The next morning we packed and got ready to go to Utah. On the way to Idaho Falls our car was shaking like a massage chair and we decided to turn around. We went to get it fixed... guess what... we had ice and snow stuck all over in our tires (go figure, that's what happens when your car is buried up to the windows).

So we were on the road again in no time. Unfortunately the roads were terrible. We saw at least 10 crashes on our way down. One happened right in front of us (we drove through the puff of snow that they left on the road). They were sliding all over the place and went right off the road. We couldn't stop because there were no shoulders at all, but Breck called 911.

We finally made it safely. What a blessing!