Wild Date Night Weather

9:30 pm last night
3:00 pm today -- less than 18 hours later

Matt and I aren't good at making time to go out on a date without our lil guy -- we are doing good to get a sitter once or twice a quarter to go out on our own. So a few weeks ago I contacted a person who has watched Colin before, and planned a surprise, "kid-free" dinner outing.

It never fails that when we have her watch Colin, it will snow. And who would have thought it, just a few days shy of April??

We enjoyed our nice dinner and then headed out in the car. It was still just raining in our downtown area. Half way home, the rain turned to sleet, and then immediately to huge fluffy, blinding snow flakes. In the ten minute drive to get home, we were driving through 2, and then 4 inches of snow. Mind you, it was just raining when we had left the house to go out on the date.

There was so much snow on the hill leading up to our house that our 2 wheel drive car couldn't make it up the hill, so she spent the night in front of a neighbors house and we hiked on foot up the hill to relieve our sitter.

Fortunately she was able to make it home just fine, as she credited much experience from driving in the snow in Hungaria (whew!), but I felt just aweful that she had to drive home in the snow!

I took a picture last night around 9:30 pm, and then this afternoon around 3 pm. The difference is remarkable. Last night looked like a winter wonderland, and today there is ZERO hint of snow. the grass is fully green and the flowers are all perked up like it really is SPRING. So wild! I wouldn believe these pictures unless I had taken them myself.