Last Day at the cabin - Snowstorm hits....

We had tickets to fly out of Idaho Falls on Monday afternoon, Dec 22. So, that morning we got in our last hot-tub adventures and snowmobile rides. It had dumped a bunch of fresh snow the night before, and was starting up again. Noel is in her element in the snow. She is like a polar bear. She made a snow cave while the rest of us watched from the hot tub.




Asher contemplates getting into the snow... will he do it?


Yes! It is Polar Bear Asher!

Asher didn't stay long. He hopped back in the water to warm up. Noel snuggled right down in the hole and looked very content.

After lunch, we packed our bags and headed to the airport... or tried to. This is where our vacation seemed to get off track somehow. It turned into a series of weather-befuddled adventures. We can look back now and laugh... but at the time, they were not always so funny.

First, we needed to have 2 pick-up trucks use tow-cables to pull the van we were driving out onto the road. All the uncles and brothers sensed a snow emergency, and excitedly worked on getting the van lined up right to head out. This is when I shouldv'e been taking pictures of our snow-disasters... but at the time, we didn't want to remember some of the incidents. So, let that be a lesson to you blog readers... take shots of the good and the ugly... someday you will laugh at the ugly side of life. :)

Daniel continued towing us until we hit the plowed highway. He followed us down, through the blizzard until we reached lower elevations. We drove very slowly for a couple hours, through a blizzard to the airport, passing cars that were stuck in snowdrifts left and right.

At the airport we were told our flight to Denver was going to be so late that we would be stuck in Denver because there wasn't a later flight to Madison. We figured we'd rather be stuck with family than in an airport... so they rebooked us for 2 days later - Christmas Eve. It was the soonest the could find room on the same plane for all 6 of us.

We droe back through the snow to Rexburg, and Sean started Christmas baking. We thought of all the things we wern't going to be able to do at home in Wisconsin, and decided to try to do them in Idaho. Sean made tasty saffron bullar (a Swedish Christmas roll). I unpacked all 12 bags again.