Winter break in Buffalo!

After Christmas, Ry & I traveled to Buffalo to visit with the family! As usually, we took Nephew out for some fun! Here's our day at the Snow Park in Niagara Falls on New Year's Day! -- it's actually open 365 days a year, and Nephew is already looking forward to another trip there this summer!

Here's the snow tubing hill!!

Uncle Ry at the bottom!
The boys going down in a double tube! Nephew's first time "Ice" Skating.
(It's not really ice ... it's some weird frictionless surface)

Taking a break in the snow piles on the "Ice" Rink

Uncle Ry, Nephew & Aunt Kel "playing hockey"

I think he had fun!
(Even if Aunt Kel did threaten to make him sit in the car while we had all the fun!!)

Snowed in!

Yep, we're snowed in.

Well, not really.

We got about 2 feet of pretty fluffy snow here in NJ.

But I am from Buffalo ... so we got Ry's car out of a snow bank and went shopping! Half the stores were closed, but we managed to go to BJs and Walmart!

I decided to take this snowy day and learn how to get pictures off of my camera and on to my new computer!

So here's a few photos of the snow! And I'll post a few more pictures from the last few months in the next couple of posts!

Here are our cars AFTER we brushed them off and shoveled a bit!

A letter to PennDOT

Dear Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,

The next time it snows, do you think you could possibly plow the roads, especially the major interstate?? Maybe even throw down some salt? Only if it's not too much trouble!

That'd be super!

Thanks!

Cheers!
Sneks

Thinkin' like a president ...

Who knew that Obama & I had so much in common?



Oh, if I ruled the world .....

sNOw day!

I swear, the Little Town is going to ruin snow for me!

As a true-Buffalo girl, I really enjoy snow! Sure 100 days of snow gets to you sometimes (could it be the lack of sun and seasonal effective disorder?), but overall I really like snow! The big white fluffy flakes, the mounds of snow taller than me, brushing the powder off of my car! I love it all! Ry & I are even planning a winter wedding in Buffalo! Who does that?

Here's just a few reasons why the Little Town is killing snow for me:

1. It snowed 3 inches (yay!), now it is raining (boo!)!
2. The rain is quickly turning to a layer of ice over EVERYTHING!
3. The Little Town ignores the side streets on the "bad" side of town (where I live) and thus, there has been no plow down the street I park on.
4. The main street that I live on did finally get plowed. At 9:30am. 12 hours after the snow started.
5. My university did not close, despite the fact that people get around this tall, tall mountain through a bus system, and despite the fact the 4 other universities within a 5 mile radius have all closed. This makes people in my department (on the very tallest part of the mountain) angry.
6. The university did (eventually) plow the parking lot and shovel the walk to the door. They did not, however, salt anything, which is a problem (see #2 above).
7. Half of the department dd not make it in today, for various winter storm related reasons. Normally, I would not be affected by this, but we have a job candidate here that we're courting, so I had to go "play nice" for a few hours (like I have nothing else to do).
8. Did I mention the rain/ice?

Ok ... so only 8 that I came up with off of the top of my head.

I hope the rain stops soon and everyone salts so that I can do laundry and drive the 20 minutes to Joe's house tonight to watch LOST!!

Happy Snow Day to those of you lucky enough to take advantage of it! (RYGUY!!!!!!)

Snow in the Little Town ...

... is certainly a different experience than snow back home!

With the (less than) 3" of snow/sleet/rain that we got today:

1. Work closed at noon (not that anyone really came in anyway)
2. Ry's sister's Wedding Vow Renewal & Hannah's Baptism was cancelled (so that no one had to travel late at night in the snow (even though it stopped snowing by 6pm))
3. No one was at the movie theater, restaurant or high-end outdoor shopping center that's a mere 7 minute drive from my house!

Despite living in the Little Town for 3.5 years and Philly for 2 years, it never amazes me how people in eastern PA react to a snowy forecast!

PS -- Talked to Mom at home ... they got 12" of snow and she was headed to the casino! No snow stops us Buffalo girls from having fun!