A Big Snow Storm!!

We finally have had our first big storm here. It is not big by Nor'easter standards but big for Prague. We probably have about 8" on the ground so far and they are calling for more snow tonight and then again on Monday and Tuesday. It is great to see everything covered in snow. We didn't quite belive that a big storm was coming since the weather forecast never seems to be accurate here. The storm was suppose to start on Friday night around midnight but we woke up on Friday morning and it was snowing by 8am. By 6pm there was still only about 3 inches on the ground though so we decided we would still go out to dinner with friends. We had a fun dinner and then drove home. The drive home was very slow since plowing of the roads seems non- existent. The isn't quite true since there was a plow in front of us for part of the drive home but the plow didn't seem to be removing any snow from the road! Anyway, we pulled into our road which does not get plowed at all. Since there are only five year round houses on our road there is also not much traffic. The snow had piled up while we were at dinner but we decided to give it a go and drove down our road. We made it about half way up our hill before we started sliding backwards. I backed it up to the bottom of the hill, got slightly stuck which required Jason to do some pushing and then gave the hill another go to no avail. I got to the same spot on the hill. At that point we gave up and parked near the end of our road and just walked home.

This morning we woke up to more snow. We had made plans with some friends to go ice skating on the local pond so we headed out for some skating around 11am. The kids loved skating and playing in the snow with their friends. After a little bit we headed into the pizza restaurant at the pond for lunch. We ended up meeting up with another group of our friends at the restaurant. The girls were excited to have even more of their friends around and they all played together and had a blast. After lunch we headed out for more skating. I was a little surprised that the kids wanted to go back out skating but they absoultely love the snow and ice. Having their friends there made it even better. They played until about 4 and then we all walked over to our friends house for coffee/tea/hot chocolate. We ended up walking home in the dark after a fun filled day. I'm looking forward to heading back out in the snow tomorrow!