Many of the Christmas cards we received this year said “hope your first Christmas as husband and wife is memorable” Let me tell you… it was EXACTLY that!
It all started Monday. I am a major weather worrier. I spent all day Monday and half of Tuesday stressing over the weather for our 6 hour drive home Tuesday night. They were predicting freezing rain to begin sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday. After consulting 3 of the 4 meteorologists who work at the station, and obsessing over probably every weather web site on the internet, I decided we’d try to go home and pray we didn’t get stuck in bad weather. Thankfully, we arrived at my parent's house safely around 1:00 Wednesday morning without encountering any major weather hazards.
Wednesday was fun hanging out with my family. Thursday, though, Thursday got exciting. We enjoyed celebrating Christmas with my in-laws over lunch on Christmas. We headed to Grandma & Grandpa’s (about a hour drive) around dinner time. The snow was falling and blowing across the road, but we still made it in good time. We headed home from Grandpa & Grandma’s around 11:30.
Around 1:00 Christmas morning, we decided the roads were no longer safe, so we spent the night in the "Super 7" hotel in a town about half-way between Grandma & Grandpa's and home. Funny enough, this is the same hotel we stayed in on our wedding night!
So, we woke up Christmas morning in the hotel and had a lovely continental breakfast. Unfortunately, Santa doesn’t deliver to the Super 7 – mega bummer!
After watching two snow plows go by during breakfast, we decided we’d try to leave. Thank goodness we did. We made it home safely two hours later.
By Christmas afternoon, the state had completely closed the highway because there were 5 spots that were completely drifted shut. Santa was able to make it to our house shortly after we got home – better late than never! :-)
Talk about an adventure! It’s fun looking back now, but was a little stressful at the time. We’re just very thankful we (and our families) made it safely through the Holiday. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well – and that you were safe and warm as you celebrated!
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