Ice Road Trucker

Yesterday Matt and I tried to make it from my parents' home in Alabama back to our apartment in South Carolina. Well let me just tell you, things did not go as planned! We spent over 5 hours in Matt's truck and never made it to South Carolina. My parents live about an hour from Atlanta, and we never even made it to Atlanta! The roads were in terrible condition to say the least. At one point an 18-wheeler right beside us got stuck in the middle of the road and could not move. Right before we got to Atlanta, the police made everyone get off an exit and shut down the interstate heading east. We then had to turn around, get back on the interstate, and head back to Alabama. On our way back, we had to sit in traffic again! It was a terrible experience. Luckily my mother had packed us a snack bag, so at least we had something to snack on while we were on the road :)

We are going to try again tomorrow. Hopefully we will be more successful then and make it past Atlanta this time. Poor Matt is having to miss work and use up his vacation days. He is not happy about this! Well I'm off to work on my class stuff. Thanks to everyone for all of the sweet comments, and I'm so excited to see have even more followers :) Everyone have a great day!

the weather outside is frightful...

The weatherman was right about the snow! It started snowing last night around 6 and lasted until about 10. I have never in my life seen the snow come down soo hard, and the snowflakes were huge!! I suppose I did see this during the blizzard of '93, but I was too young to remember ;) We got about four inches of snow, and today the snow has become solid ice. Definitely can't build a snowman with this stuff!

This is a picture of my parent's home that I took on Christmas day. I haven't gotten outside with my camera yet today, but we DEFINITELY got way more snow this go around. This Alabama weather has been crazier than normal!

My family and I have been lounging around the house all day, enjoying each other's company. We have cooked, watched movies, and played the Wii. Now we are all just waiting for the National Championship game later tonight. I can't wait! I am so pumped to watch Auburn beat Oregon!!

I will be watching the game at a friend's who lives one street over. Luckily, they have a huge truck that they are going to come pick me up in =) My poor little mercedes just wouldn't make it up the big hill on our street. Well hope I everyone is enjoying their day!!

WAR EAGLE