We got seventeen inches of snow yesterday in Minneapolis. The Metrodome roof collapsed, the city buses stopped running, and impassable roads have kept my boyfriend and I confined to my TV-less apartment. I love snow, so yesterday was awesome, but today it’s two degrees and the windchill is 15 below so it’s slightly less awesome, especially when you have to start the day by digging cars out of snow drifts and your ultra warm parka is still at your parents’ house in Iowa because the past three years led you to believe that it doesn’t usually get this cold until January. Being snowed in with a well-stocked kitchen means there’s been lot of good food, though, and before we got snowed in we saw Black Swan, which was just as awesome as a blizzard (if you, like me, enjoy blizzards). It’s been a good weekend. Here are some pictures.
My bedroom window Saturday morning. Oops.
Chocolate chip pancakes to start the day
Checking out the snow
Drifts covering Matt’s car with more snow to come
I believe this is how my grandparents walked to and from school.
Cars getting stuck
Yay! Blizzard!
My neighborhood
Freshly baked bagels for lunch
We finally hung our stockings
An impromptu Indian feast for dinner, starting with naan
Chana masala
Naan, chana masala, basmati rice, red lentil dal
Drifting after the snow finally ended
Happy that this is not my car
Not so happy that this is my car. I kind of miss paying an arm and a leg for garage parking at my old apartment.
The whole neighborhood was trying to dig out this morning. Our shoveling was rewarded with more bagels, pancakes, and coffee with vanilla ice cream since we ran out of milk yesterday. I love snow.
That reminds me of a couple of years ago when my husband and I lived in Madison, WI. (Although I don’t think we got that much in one storm.) I am wishing we had snow, although I am loving the above average temps this year here. (We’re about 15 – 20 degrees above where we normally are.
Enjoy those warm temps!