New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve celebrations began with a community dinner at the city gym. I got to sit and talk with some of my kids and then had a chance to play with them after dinner. After the dinner, the BSSD teachers helped clean up and then clear the gym for games. We had a big game of musical chairs in the middle of the gym and on both basketball hoops we hung up three pinatas. At 7:30pm Nathan and I headed home.
At 8pm we bundled up and headed over to Pam and Michael's for games and snacks. We played our new Cranium-brand game. Then we played a long game of Phase 10. At midnight we turned off the lights and watched the city sent off fireworks over the hill behind the house. It was very pretty, with the colorful lights reflecting off the snow. There were a few people sitting out on the hill to watch (it was 25 below without windchill). We finished Phase 10 around 1:30am and then we all went home. For some reason, Nathan and I and Katie weren't tired yet, so we invited Katie over for a movie. We watched "Amelie". Before it was over, the french narration had put us all to sleep. Katie went home at 4:30am and we went to bed.
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| Juliet demonstrates the power of static electricity for us on New Year's. She picked up a receipt when she was laying on the ground and it stayed on her fur for about 10 minutes. It slowly worked its way down to the tip of her tail and finally fell off. |
January 2, 2012
Monday morning began with a knock on my door at 8:30am. Flora had walked to work and no one was there. We start working on Tuesday and the kids start again on Wednesday. It was 27 below.
When I finally felt awake, I started a load of laundry and Nathan and I settled in to watch the Ducks in the Rose Bowl. Suddenly, we heard the loud splashing of a waterfall.
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| Romeo trying to figure out what's going on. |
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| The floor was covered with water that came out of the sink drain. |
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| It flowed out into the hall and into Nathan's office. |
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| And into my bedroom. |
Another Alaskan Adventure.
GO DUCKS!!!
Further Info on the cold, as we are entering what will undoubtedly be the coldest month here. As I write this at 11am, it is currently -24 outside. Inside our house, where the thermostat is set to 80, the actual room temperature at thermostat level is 71, 2 feet lower where we have a 2nd thermometer, it's 67. To get an idea of the contrast of temperature, imagine being outside on a nice 80-90 degree day. Now walk directly into a commercial freezer. That's what it's like going out our front door. Our home is carpeted (poorly, but it is still carpet) but we can feel the cold permeating the floor with two layers of socks on. Our windows have a small layer of frost on them....on the inside.
ReplyDeleteIt is actually colder outside than our thermometer says (it is affected by the heat coming from the house). It was -35 when I arrived at work this morning at 8am. We need to put out thermometer somewhere else.
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