Michael & Liz are Bloggable

For the first time this year and I'm guessing for the last time this year, it snowed here in North Carolina. We only got about 5 inches, but the roads are covered in snow and ice and no one is going anywhere. 2 of our friends, John and Allie, who are currently living in Asheville, are in town too and are staying at our house. We were all sitting around playing the awesome Monopoly card game we have when we decided to bundle up and go out in the 18 degree weather to walk to the gas station up the street named "Cruizers". Of course our main objective was to obtain ice cream and beer, but it would be fun just to get out and play. It's only 3/4 of a mile, but in windy/sleety weather, it felt like we were going on a trek through the Andes.


So covered head to toe with layers, we headed down the empty street.


And tried our best not to slip and fall...

We made it there only to find out our trek, through the cold windy weather, was what ruined our quest in the first place.

So on the way back we took out our frustrations on the ice that froze over the little creek that was on the way.


Success! Ice Holes!

They were not big enough...

And then we started throwing them at each other...

We don't take enough advantage of the things we can walk to from our house, and the inability to drive yesterday really motivated us to get up and do something about it. I think walking to the restaurants and different places up the street from our house is something Liz and I are going to try and make a priority this year. I know this summer when the World Cup is on, I'm often going to be glued to the TV to watch those games. It would make it much more awesome instead if we walked up the street to the El Dorado Mexican Restaurant to watch them.

Gotta love a random Saturday walk in the snow.