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February 26, 2006

Soft rock and snow

You know you've had a night from hell when Lionel Ritchie sounds good in the morning. Britta was up, Karsten was up, Britta was down, then up then down. No sleep from 2-5am for me. Location of husband: San Diego. The United States fortunately, but at 2am, not good enough.

Anyway I thought I'd perk myself up with a blog post about our Snow Day. Andy took the day off work on Thursday and after preschool we headed for the mountains for our version of the Norwegian BBQ. Before take off we hit our favorite european deli for weiners (the term "hot dogs" is offensive to the German owners we learned) and our favorite lye rolls. Yeah, yeah, it is all german stuff but close enough. (Sorry to any norwegian readers I may be offending.)

The weather had been clear all week until we started driving up to Snoqualmie Pass. 8-10 inches of snow was excepted that day. No matter, we're going. Snow tires or changes required. We have none. Andy assures me all wheel drive is good enough. I ask about the gas light on. Andy assures me "no problem." We're having fun. Little Ole, the snowcat, picks up and sleds us off to Trollhaugen, the Sons of Norway lodge. Karsten and Andy suit up and hit the sledding hill, make a snowman and snow angels. Karsten's cheeks are so rosy when he comes back in to warm up with his hot chocolate and weiners. Andy said Karsten laughed the whole time he played in the snow. Britta and I made good lodge girls, cozying up to the fire and talking to other visitors who had also spent their Christmas in Norway.

The snow didn't stop falling the entire time we were there. We left earlier than planned "just in case." As we were leaving we heard the BOOMs of the avalanche control. We started to wonder just how many diapers we had packed. We dig our car out and we're in luck, the pass is open. No, it isn't open. Yes it is. Slow going, it took us almost 3 hours to get home.

Still, fun times. I'm ready to head back next week!

*apologies for the poor grammar. Too tired to fix.

Posted by jana at February 26, 2006 12:53 PM