Winter Storm Janus

Yesterday DC had it's first real snow storm of the winter. We've gotten snow a few times, but hardly anything more than a dusting. My work, and most other businesses closed for the day in anticipation for winter storm Janus.

In Utah we don't get snow days, and most people aren't afraid to drive in the snow, here people are afraid to be out in the snow, and everything shuts down just at the hint of a snow storm.  It made for an absolutely beautiful scene, no one was out, so I decided to go for a walk in the snowy evening.

It was a really enjoyable / peaceful walk until I turned around to walk back and started against the wind with snow whipping into my face. 

It continued snowing over night, and we ended up with about 6 inches on the ground. It made me feel a little more at home here since I've been missing all of the snow from back home. 

Which City Should We Choose?

Remember when the groundhog said spring would come early? Well apparently he excluded Utah on that one.

It actually worked well in our favor that it snowed a lot. PCW (Price Waterhouse Cooper) one of the big four (biggest 4 accounting firms) invited everyone in Hal's program to come down to Sundance for a day of networking and skiing.

I don't ski or snowboard, so i just networked, but Hal enjoyed all of the snow.

We were sneaky and stayed for both lunches. The lunches were set up where there was a city listed on each table, so you sat where you think you might want to work. Then they had someone from that office who went to BYU there to talk to you about anything and everything.

Right now our top two cities are Washington DC and San Francisco.

We got to talk to great people in both places.

San Fran has family.

DC has Peace Corps family. DC might better lead to our goal of living abroad for a while.

They're both amazing cultural cities.

Which city do you like better?

6 Months Back Home

Hal and I have been home from Cambodia for almost exactly 6 months now. Hard to believe we've been home that long.

In the 6 months we've been home we've gone from this:

To This:

We have had the snowiest winter here in Utah that anyone can remember. I've been feeling really cooped up with all of this snow, so last weekeend when we had a big snow storm come through and it literally didn't stop snowing for about 10 hours straight and dumped over a foot I decided to just enjoy it.

Hal's parents were coming home from a cruise so we decided to be nice and shovel their driveway and sidewalks for them, with just a bit of playing in the snow.

Above is the fresh snow on the driveway, and below is the piled up snow that hasn't melted away.

One of the biggest adjustments has definitely been the weather. Hal has been bundling up with thermals while I've been toughing it out, trying to get my body to readjust to the cold.

As much as I hated the humditiy and the heat while I lived in Cambodia. It's days like these, filled with endless cold and inversion that I miss that heat for half a second before I remember the lack of AC and endless sweating.

I think I'll take the snow.