Off To Seattle

This morning, I woke up, showered and finished packing for Seattle. I had heard the snowplow outside as I was waking, but I forgot to take a peak until I hopped on the computer, and drew the curtains just now. We have about 8 inches, and it's still heavily snowing. I'm so bummed we're leaving!! For the past month, I've been itching to make a snow angel, but there hadn't been enough snow.

Here's a photo I just took of my little Buddha. My dad bought it for me in 2006 after a few weeks of hard work down in Tucson, AZ (we were doing the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show as we had for the past decade). He had watched me fall in love with it, hard not to with a face like that - he's so soothing. It was hand carved out of stone, somewhere in Asia (I can't remember where). It was a big deal that my dad snuck away and bought it for me, it was against everything in his Christian gut.

So, I just checked the mountain passes, and they're pretty messy. Wish us luck, we're heading over to the west side this afternoon after work. We'll just take it slow and easy. I guess the more you drive in extreme conditions, the better you get at it. I'll chalk this trip up as more experience. Here's the photos from the pass cameras...

We usually head over Stevens, but it's snowing like crazy and they're doing avalanche control which would cause some undesirable delays. Maybe we'll take Blewett & Snoqualmie instead. Snoqualmie is a mess though, they're requiring chains on all vehicles unless you have four wheel drive, which we do, but Danny's tires are pretty bad in the snow. We need to get studded tires. Either way I have a feeling it's going to be a looooong drive :) Don't worry, all of you mothers out there, we're packing warm clothing and snacks just in case we get stuck. And, I have what most people don't, a father that thrives on pulling people out of snow banks. If we go slow enough, the worst thing that can happen is that we end up getting stuck.

We're off to conquer another MRI! Every day's an adventure :)