to bask in the rays of the sun
from the warmth of the house...
while looking out at the beautiful snow covered trees?
It was a beautiful sight to behold, but to stop here would leave off the most important part of the story - how it came to be that I was able to take this picture from my bed late in the morning.
Where shall I begin - long story alert...
The afternoon before (Wednesday, January 26th), the office closed early, and here I am about 3 hours in to my commute a little after 7:00 p.m.:
Realizing all the major routes (395, 95, 495) were closed:
Around 8 p.m. when I thought a UFO was over the stoplight - and I caught the green sky on video:
Me talking again at 8:50 p.m. after some people pushed me up a hill and when I thought I was a mile from GMU (which I wasn't):
Luckily, I had peanut butter cookies:
9:24 p.m. at a strip mall parking lot (no gas station and almost on empty):
Lots of people stuck in a parking lot of all places. It doesn't look like much snow, but whatever it was (snow,ice,slush, rain), it was not cooperating with our cars.
10:46 p.m. - already forgetting what date it was:
Realizing that I should probably show what my view was for about 10.5 hours:
Hand exercises at 11:18 p.m. to stay occupied:
Took a picture to have a break from the video setting:
11:35 p.m. and I'm so over the whole experience:
Don't laugh at that last one - I was going crazy.
Sitting in the same spot - at almost midnight:
Turning off the car - almost out of gas:
Grown man going to the restroom (or not) right in front of us:
I'm not the only one taking pictures and videos along the way:
12:33 in the morning -a glimpse of the university:
So, if you got to this point (which most people probably didn't), you know that there was no way I was going in to work the next day after arriving home around 2 a.m.
But, blessings abound -good samaritans all over the place, I didn't run out of gas (shocking since I had only put $10 in an empty tank the day before) and I got home safely.
Here's to little traffice adventures and traffic inspired sick days....though I actually did work a bit the next day..but, from home and in my bed (which is where I took the pictures from the first part of the post).
