Snowed in at SU: Day 2 February 6, 2010
Posted by Marina in : Winter 2009-2010 , trackback
As we awoke from another night of game playing, star singing action, we noticed it was still blizzarding outside here at SU. This is a picture of my roommate and her friends who had a big sleepover for the snowy weekend! Of course I was invited, but I felt as if a real bed was better than a blow-up mattress on the floor! Anyway, I got out of bed and walked to the end of my hallway to have a look outside. This is what I saw:
It was literally blizzarding outside! I was not about to got out for breakfast. Thank goodness I bought some milk and cereal at the store. But the big question for the day was not what to eat, it was what to do. However, being the creative thinker I am, I knew there was plenty of things to do here in my room. So I got to playing a round of LIFE with everyone in the suite and then onto a game of WAR with some good old fashion cards. I always have a deck of cards in my room for times like these. But when playing games got old, I turned to my movie collection. Looking out the window and watching the snow fall vigorously, I knew it wasn’t time for me to head out just yet. So in the meantime I dug through my stack of movies.
This isn’t even all the movies I own! But anyway, I ended up putting in one of my favorite Disney movies and taking a nap. Watching the snow fall can take a lot out of a gal. I guess I never got the same genes my Mamaw has. She used to live in Alaska! Needless to say, I would never survive.
After my nap, I woke up to see that it had stopped snowing! Now was my chance to go out and get waist deep into the snow! So I put on the warmest clothes I own and went out for a snowball fight with some of my friends. Here is a picture I took before the massacre began!
One of them, as you all know, is my roommate Chelsea who was on my victorious team for the snowball fight! Kids were out all across campus playing in the snow with friends and sledding! It was so much fun. It was only a matter of time before my nose was completely frozen and I was forced to go back into my dorm to warm up a little bit. But a little while after, Tylor and I decided to take our first venture to Rockland since the storm. I was worried about falling, but hey, it couldn’t hurt worse than some of those snowballs! I walked out of the doors of Western Run and saw the plow trucks plowing our parking lot.
Much to my liking, there is still lots of snow on the ground. :]
Unfortunately for me, however, was the sight of my poor car, Betsy, being stuck under a massive mound of snow that will probably take me a week to fight through.
Good thing I don’t need to go anywhere anytime soon but Rockland. Which by the way was delicious! We went in and feasted on Pizza, Sandwiches, and our favorite, Turkey with gravy and masher potatoes! Yum! After the feast we walked outside and knowing my love for sunsets, Tylor took this picture for me on his phone:
Isn’t it just beautiful with the snow? Ahh! To finish up our evening, a bunch of us gathered in the lobby on the third floor and played board games like Apples to Apples. It is my belief that every college student should own a copy of this game – it is awesome! The campus came to life at night and several students were out and about on campus enjoying the snow that has now gotten us off of school for Monday!
But for now, I am gearing up for the Superbowl tomorrow!
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Oh my — what snow you’ve had — and more to come today! It reminds me of interior Alaska EXCEPT up there the temperature stayed day and night at 50 below zero and we couldn’t see the sun as it didn’t come up high enough from the horizon to make it over the mountains. So this time of yr. winter “daylight” was like your dusk — dark gray then black… real black.
Get in your supplies again and hunker down — I see this next storm may be a big dump too.
It is 4 degrees here in Yellowstone country today with only a skiff of snow on the ground. You have WAY MORE this year in accummulation than we’ve had so far.
Love — MamMaw