If anybody has been following the Anchorage forecast (which is very likely to be dad), then you'll have noticed that the temperature here is a bit on the chilly side (we've had a couple of nights when it went into the negatives). We've had some snow (about two feet for the month of November), but snow doesn't keep the kids from going to school. Ironically, it's when it warms up that they shut down schools. Why? When the temperature rises suddenly from 20 degrees to 40 degrees (as it did Thanksgiving week), all the snow on the ground melts in the daytime, and it'll rain. At night, when the temperature drops to below freezing again, all that melted snow and rain freezes and becomes ice. Then the roads become really nasty, and everybody either has to drive 15 miles an hour or end up in a ditch.
So, I've decided that snow doesn't bother me at all. I'm careful enough when I drive that it's not a problem, and I don't really mind scraping it off of my windshield. I'd rather it snow actually, because when it doesn't my windshield ices up. And unlike snow, which I can scrape off, the ice I cannot. So, I have to run my car for about 10-15 minutes with the heat blasted to melt it. Then my car becomes like an oven - which, if you know me, I don't like. Ironic, I know.
Thanksgiving was awesome. I went to dinner at a friend's family's house. All the traditional foods, and as always in large quantity. Thanksgiving really is the perfect time to fatten up to deal with the upcoming holiday season. And it's a commemoration of everything that is awesome about this country. We have a day where we do nothing but eat, sleep, and watch football.
On a side note, I'll be back in Las Vegas for Christmas (Dec 21 to Jan 12). Until next post.
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