What an adventure!

We drove up to our daughter's place for the Super Bowl Extravaganza, just seventeen minutes from Park Sierra, knowing that it had snowed the night before. Well . . . were we ever surprised to see just how much it had snowed. We also knew that the power had been out since 4 a.m. and wasn't expected to be up until at least 4 p.m. We had taken our generator up to their house last week, but didn't have to use it. But we left it there, just in case. Well today was the "just in case" time and we needed to get it running in order to watch the game. The power outage also meant that we couldn't use the oven to warm up our "hot" dishes, so we heated up everything we could before we left. What a fun adventurous time we experienced. Although the Patriots lost, it was a great game, especially the last fifty seconds!

This is the road off of Highway 41 . . . hmmmmmm. . . lots of snow!

This is their street . . . hmmmmmm. . . lots of snow!

This is heading up their driveway . . . hmmmmmm. . . lots of snow!

Here are P and J greeting us with snow shovel in hand, because even though K put the truck in super-duper-low-geared-4-wheel drive we still got stuck, much to K's frustration.

P digging the snow away from the truck, so that K can see where the driveway is, which was difficult to tell with all the snow cover . . . better get some kind of marking device for future storms.

JD loving the snow, especially throwing snowballs at anybody nearby.

And here is KL on her knees gathering enough snow to make a big snowball to throw at her brother.

P got a lot of practice shoveling snow. They have such a long driveway, I'm thinking they need some kind of motorized sit-upon mini-snowplow!

A view of the front yard.

But after getting our truck up to the top of the driveway, throwing a few snowballs, starting up the generator and plugging in the TV, enjoying all the food we prepared for the party in candlelight, watching the Super Bowl game together, having dinner and a birthday celebration for KL, cheering loudly when the electricity came back on at 6 p.m., we still had a little energy to play a couple games of Pegs and Jokers.

Life is good!