its beginning to look a lot like christmas

ok so i first heard of the impending "blizzard" from higgins when i called her from the airport in atlanta. we had plans to get drinks on saturday afternoon and she asked if we still wanted to travel into the city with the blizzard coming and all. i was like "what blizzard?" she explained that nyc was supposed to get a bunch of snow dumped on it this weekend. i didn't really believe her just b/c our winter has been so ridiculously mild thus far, but i called jes anyways to tell her the good news (she is completely stoked about snow-southerner).

so in preparation we went to get sleds and made plans with ali to meet at 10am on sunday. it was chilly on saturday but there was no sign of snow. folks at the hardware store asked me if i really thought it was going to snow, i told them "it better if i am spending the money on the sleds." they laughed and looked at me like i am crazy but boy oh boy i bet they wish they were getting them a sled.

so the snow started last night. and it hasn't stopped yet now at 5:24pm. here is the pic jes took early this morning when mr. meowgi (aka larry) woke her up:



and here is another window in our room later in the morning, starring mr. larry:



here is the view out our kitchen window. perhaps you can make out the green plastic lawn chairs underneath all that snow:



so ali met us at our house at 10am dressed and ready to sled. the wind was blowing the snow right at our faces and it really hurt, but once we got walking, we warmed up and we were ready to go. here is a pic of ali and jes at our front door, ready to rumble:



so we headed toward prospect park in search of good hill. it took us about an hour to find one. we came upon a mom, dad and two girls who were sledding down a mini hill, but it just wasn't all that. so we continued on toward grand army plaza where both jes and ali were sure we would find the hill of our dreams to sled down. here is a pic of me and ali *slowly* walking through the knee high snow:



we trudged on, being passed by some crazy ass fuck nuts who were running some sort of race around the park IN THE SNOW. we could barely walk without falling and these dudes were jogging. go figure. anywho, we trudged on and there it was, off across the meadow- THE HILL. the light shown down on it, the squeals of children rang in our ears- we had found our sledding nirvana. we got there early enough that it wasn't too crowded. when we left before noon there was about twelve million children all with their yuppie parents forcing them down the hill. we did not kill any small children, so i guess it was good. anywho, here are the action shots. first up, ali rocking the blue disc:



here is jes and me after a run down the hill on the red sled:



and here is ali and jes, post sledding. ali is on the phone with nyc kim who is stranded in staten island. her sweetie glennda is stranded in los angeles. oh bother.



here is a picture of a street off of prospect park west that we passed coming home:



and here is our street:



the sledding was so much fun. by the end we were really catching some speed. what was most fun, was this was jes's first experience with a real snowstorm and i got to share that with her. ok i gotta go change the laundry an then do the second shift of shoveling the front of our building.

happy sunday yall.