Surviving Snowmageddon

Gosh, it's the 16th of Feb already. The weather is still the big topic of conversation here as we are still in the middle of the worst winter ever and are still having freezing overnight temperatures. Gardening has been a challenge as it's so cold. I have decided to take supplies of hot chocolate and milk with me tomorrow to ensure we stop for a break mid morning, a rather cunning plan I thought.
Earlier on in the month we celebrate the first of many 40th birthdays this year at Marie's, so congrats to her and Happy Birthday to John who is out in the Falklands and celebrated his 40th too. Sorry we forgot to send you a card.
As our winter weekend in Destin drew nearer the weathermen were in a frenzy of excitement as 4 -6 inches of snow was forecast for our area. Needless to say, everywhere closed down for the day and there was panic buying of bread and milk at the local stores!! Hilarious.
So school was closed on Friday along with Nick's work so we managed to head off to Destin earlier than planned and probably drove through the worst of the storm.

This is a sign for Panama City, you can just make out the truck up ahead who kindly cleared the road for me with his big wide tracks that I was able to follow thus making the journey not quite as treacherous as it might have been!

I kept getting Nick to take photos as we drove down the 331 to Destin as it was so unusual to see this much snow in Alabama.

Safely in Destin it was a standard weekend with a trip to the beach to build sandcastles and play rugby (not me obviously!) while I sat in a chair watching the sea and flicking through a magazine. We all ended up with rosy cheeks that day as none of us thought to put sunscreen on our faces. Then it was back to our cabin for a warming bowl of soup before showering and having a relax prior to our evening at John & Aimee's which is always good fun.

Sunday morning we had a game of golf before driving home in much nicer weather and chilling out for the rest of the day.