Saturday, January 3, 2009

It's COLD with a Capital C

So we arrived back last Monday in the middle of unusually cold weather for this time of year.  Let's just say when we (and by we I mean Emily) were driving home from our New Year's Eve party we drove past the time and temp reader board at the State Troopers Headquarters (which is right next to my lab).  It said it was -23 degrees F.  Last night on the local news Anchorage as a whole was -15, and our area was -21.  Today we're suppose to have a HIGH of -8.  By the end of next week we're suppose to be back in the double-digits - a balmy 10 degrees is predicted for Friday.  So I don't want to hear any whining from anyone in Seattle.  Or Jimmy.

Emily is at swimming and I am doing laundry and feeding the dogs.  Emily's co-workers Rachel is coming over today and we are going to make soup.  

Oh, and at that New Year's Eve party, there was a little competition.  There were four teams of 4 people (Emily made it onto the same team, with Jared to boot - Team 4).  There were 4 20 minute rounds, and at each round you played a different board game against a rep from the other three teams.  There was Clue, Sorry, Sequence, Connect 4 and darts (they were the same station).  Of course at the end of the night, Team 4 was Numero Uno.  For our great victory we were rewarded with free passes to see a movie.  Pretty sweet way to start of 2009!

3 comments:

Sarah said...

That sucks. I remember -35 in Appleton. It was awful: it hurt to breathe and my skin got so chapped and dry that it hurt to bend .

Anonymous said...

Burrr!! That is too cold. How can you breathe outside? Do you still take Bannie for walks in the cold? Do you have a face mask? We are supposed to get snow today. Dad just went out golfing. Hope he can find his ball later. This is too strange this weather. momo

Jimmy said...

I like how you added in the "or Jimmy." You wonder why Alaska is not on my list of places to go. Although staying inside and playing some board games sounds great.