Pathetic Showing

So we have an inch of snow (the most in 18 years!) and over 100 schools have closed. It didn’t even occur to me to check for S’s school to be closed. We headed out in my rear wheel drive, estate car with racing tyres and didn’t make it too far (as the Brits would spell and say. And don’t ask me why anyone would have put racing tires on a station wagon). We couldn’t get up the tiny little hill on our street without some fancy MN driving know how (yes I do have some…in comparison:0) but then I realized with out a running start we would never make it up the hill onto the bridge (dead stopped traffic). So we headed home to start again on the bus. By that time, the neighborhood and 10 or so cars were all stuck on the same hill and attempting to turn around and head home. I mentioned the bus and was informed there hadn’t been a bus in over an hour. They also let me know there likely wasn’t school. As it turned out, S’s was one of the open schools, but it is a snow day for her.

I am rather ashamed to have been stopped by a mere inch of snow, but without the proper equipment, there isn’t much I could do. The walk is too far and too dangerous (in the best of conditions).

The neighborhood kids stopped over to invite us to the park. They are so over the top excited, it feels like Christmas morning. Even the adults are a twitter. I can’t stop smiling.

KKS do you remember when we lived in the South of France and it was the first snow in ten years there. It must follow me!

Pictures to follow.