sherriknits

It’s beautiful but it is sure putting a crimp in Christmas shopping.  This year we are really simplifying things so it isn’t as stressful as it usually is, but still…there are things that need to be done.

Yesterday we had snow in the morning and then it rained all day and the snow disappeared pretty much, just a little bit of a reminder left.  I think it snowed a little bit in the night but this morning was sunny.  We are supposed to get more of something tonight and it’s cold out there! 

I decided to take the day off and we headed to Olympia. 

First stop, the church.

This is looking from the church across the parking lot to the modular.  In town, we had almost no snow, a few miles away this is what we have.

Driving to Olympia was interesting.

As we drove, the snow just got deeper.  Isn’t this pretty?

These are all in order on the trip.

By the way, the road wasn’t bad at all.  As long as we stayed in the grooves, it was fine.

And then we went to visit some friends for a little bit before we went shopping.

This is the little road to their house.  We’re talking serious snow now, probably a foot.  The road was packed snow and we saw cars trying to get up hills and had to wait for them to back all the way down. We saw a poor guy under his car putting chains on.  It was beautiful and the Jeep did just fine.

We headed in to Olympia after our visit and right as we were getting to the edge of town, traffic came to a complete stand still. Every lane, every direction…stopped.  Every now and then we could inch forward and we managed to get across the main street (wow…so weird to see all those cars just sitting there!) and into a parking lot.  That was kind of busy, too, but we got across it and then sat waiting to cross a side street into the mall.  Cars were stuck and trying to get some traction, some were going sideways…it was awful.  Don’t ask me why I forgot to get out my camera. 

The plan originally was to drop me at the mall, Kenny to run an errand, and come back and get me.  By the time we landed at the mall, I was not willing to be left behind.  They closed the mall Wednesday and what if he couldn’t get back to get me?  He says I’m silly.  He dropped me off and did go across the street to pick something up.  By the time he got there, it was dark.  We had left home at noon and visited our friends until about 3:45 and they live minutes from town.  I have never shopped so fast.  I was running through the store, piling things in my arms (of course everything is bulky), knocking things over…my conscience won’t let me leave it there so I’d have to pick it all up….but what was exciting to me was that the one thing we went up there for:  I got the last one and although it didn’t have the case it was supposed to come in, I GOT THE LAST ONE!  That was the point of our trip.

Kenny got to the mall as I finished what I needed and we ran through Penney’s to get some big boy jammies.  (impossible to find!)

Then we ran the errand together and headed back to Oly, ate dinner, ran through Target and got home about 8:30.  The drive home was uneventful.

Safe and sound and waiting to see what comes next…maybe more snow tonight!

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