Friday
As we all left work Friday everyone was saying "See you Tuesday" in anticipation of the winter weather. Turns out it'll be Wednesday or later! That's right folks, I have another day off!

Friday was a pretty busy day work-wise. I probably could have stayed another 2 hours and still not gotten everything done that I needed too. But oh well, it'll be there tomorrow..or Wednesday. :)

Brian and Paul arrived sometime that evening with Chris following shortly behind. We all piled into Chris' car and headed for Eric and Kelly's for our 'Black Friday' celebration. We ordered delicious food from Rocco's and played Scattagories and Outburst.

Saturday
Saturday Jeff and I slept in while Brian went out jogging in the rain. We eventually met up with Mike, Lauren, Paul and Chris and headed south to eat at Uno's (which is actually just Uno, but sounds stupid). After a yummy lunch Mike and Lauren showed us the house they're planning to buy. Turns out they found this house last weekend and immediately knew they wanted it so the whole process is going very quick. The house is very much like our townhouse in style, just slightly (sarcastic) bigger. If everything works out we could be helping them move in soon.

Saturday night's Richbrau plans were canceled when the rain turned to ice (and Jill couldn't make it). But the party just moved to Mike & Lauren's and we had fun anyway. We all teamed up for some Movie and then Music trivia games. I ended up being on Jeff and Mike's team so of course that was pretty crazy. Around 1am Jeff, Paul and I decided to head out so we could get some sleep before skiing the next day.

It had been icing most of the night and vdot hadn't had time to scape all the roads yet so getting back was a long process. But we made it and got back in time for a few hours of sleep.

Sunday
Since we were skiing on a Sunday we planned to do the day ski (9-4:30). So we had to get to Eric and Kelly's around 6:30am. On a normal day this would have been possible, but with all the ice on the road it took forever to drive the curvy roads back to their house. And even driving the interstate to Wintergreen was very slow. We ended up getting to the lift ticket window about 11:40am.

Knowing that, we went ahead and bought tickets for the twilight ski (12:30-10). Weather conditions on the slopes were just the same as in Richmond, ice. Paul went on down the hill so Jeff and I followed. But we both stopped short when the ice pellets stung. Neither of us were going to make it down without goggles so we trudged back up the incline and to the stores. Lucky for us we made it there when we did, they had 9 pairs left. But also unlucky for us, the cheapest one they had was $70. Paul radioed in saying he was coming to get some too so we picked up a pair for him before they all disappeared.

So back out on the slopes we went. The goggles helped immensely so down we went. Ice pelting us in the face, we skiied (or snowboarded) for a few hours before stopping for a lunch break. Getting back out was hard after sitting down. The later it got the worse the weather became. The powder was so thick it was hard to move in and the wind was blowing us back up the mountain. That was actually kind of nice because I didn't have to work as hard to slow myself down. But at the same time, using skiis without poles (snow blades) makes it hard to move on flatter spots and the wind just stopped me in my tracks.

By 5pm we were exhausted and frozen. At least the trek back to the car was downhill. Jeff took advantage of this by using his snowboard as a sled. We picked the car up from the Gooch and were in Short Pump around 9pm. Nothing was open.Wait, I think Wal-Mart was. But that's it. So we called the gang, said forget it, don't bother coming out. Jeff, Paul & I ended up eating subs from WaWa then crashing.

Monday
We all slept in again and woke up stiff and sore from skiing. The 3 of us took turns shoveling the sidewalk in preparation for the rest of the gang coming over. An hour later they still didn't have the cars scraped so we went to Taco Bell without them. Since Brian decided the roads were still too bad to drive home today, we've spent the afternoon/night playing games and watching tv.

Even though I don't have work I still have to get up for a dentist appoinment, so I better get to bed. Anyone else have another snow day?