Merry Snow Day!

Merry snow day fellow Rexburgians! After an uncommonly nice fall/early winter, it now looks and feels like the Rexburg that we know and love!

While it technically was not a snow day, it sure felt like it...let me tell you why! Kirby and I normally sleep with a fan on, just to drown out any background noises. At about 6:00 this morning we woke up to dead silence, it soon became apparent that the power had gone out and left us without a fan...but that was the least of our worries. It was COLD like bitterly, unbarably cold! I heard everything from it was -40 to it was -17 degrees out this morning...whatever the truth is, it was dang cold. So we snuggled up closer, pulled the blankets up higher, and then went back to sleep.

About an hour later we got a text from the school telling us that the power was also out on campus, so classes were cancelled until 11:30. We smiled silently to ourselves and rolled back over. A couple of hours later we received another text informing us that classes had been cancelled yet again until 12:45. Hallelujah! This meant Kirb didn't have to go to a single class, and I only had to go to two of mine! While it might be freezing out, it was a nice chance to catch up on sleep. When we were finally brave enough to peel the covers off and load on the clothing layers, we joined the rest of Kirby's family in his parent's living room where a nice fire was burning. We helped set up the last of the Christmas decorations, played with the nephews, made some hot chocolate, and took advantage of our grown-up snow day.

Now...let's talk about those Rexburg roads. You think that a place that experiences so much snow and ice every winter would have a good system figured out by now. But they are far from it! Sure the plows push most of the snow off of the road. But that's literally all they do. The roads here are straight, thick ice. In some spots there are literally mounds of ice in the middle of the road that no one cares to move. Come on Rexburg, you can do better.