Thursday, December 24, 2009

Off to Europe--gotta get to DFW first though!!

Our flight to Munich isn't until the 26th,
but we decided to go to Dallas on the 24th so
we wouldn't be traveling on Christmas.
We woke up to a surprise this AM--Snow.
Due to the weather we put off leaving until 11:00AM. By then we thought the wind and the snow would have stopped and the ice would have melted off the streets.










The snow stopped--but the snow didn't melt and the streets were icy and treacherous.

We made the first tracks down the alley-----------------------------------






Down our street---

Past the house and onto Hwy 84---we followed the "Casket Truck" foreverrrrrrrrrrr

The snow let up but the ice and snow on the roads did not.
Fortunately Jim has done a lot of driving on icy roads and we didn't end
up in the ditch like the 51 cars we counted on the roadside did.
They evidently didn't know the
SNOW RULE #1: Drive slowly and don't use your brakes!!

Tomorrow we only have a 3 hour drive to Dallas------or do we?

Snow on Christmas Eve

We woke up to about 6 inches of snow and STILL snowing. It was to be Maisie's first Christmas with us. It would have been perfect, snow on Christmas Eve especially for her. Jim was going to wear his Santa Costume--we were looking forward to this Christmas so much!! She will still get snow probably, it looks like it is going to snow in Ft. Worth too.

Looking out the front door--Oh that newspaper look sooooooooooooooooooo far away!!