News from Nicola in snowed out DC

Hi all,

As I'm sure you have heard, D.C. is snowed in! So I wanted to share some of our photos and walkabouts! The videos are clear, but not as clear as the originals ;-). We also have another good video of Ruben digging down in the snow on the Mall...but it seems to be to big for the blog.

Hope you enjoy the photos! http://drkola.blogspot.com/

And I hear we have another 10-20 inches coming tomorrow around noon....so lots of apartment time for us! For those of you who haven't been to D.C. often, the metro can't run with snow greater than 8 inches...so even if the government wasn't closed today, I couldn't have made it to work!

Stay warm and dry - whereever you may be.

Smiles, Kola

Hi Kola,

We enjoyed seeing your blog as passed on to us by Chuck. You've certainly had your share of snow. In the Pacific Northwest the weather has remained mild, and except for a deep 1-week freeze prior to Christmas, we feel we truly haven't experienced winter. It's stayed quite mild here ... just a bit rainy now and then, but still many days of glorious sunshine and mild temperatures. I've already been out gardening twice since the New Year!

Rufus and I have just returned (VERY early yesterday a.m.) from another OAT trip, this time to Costa Rica. It was an action-packed trip and we loved it! The routing for us was from Seattle through Dallas and on to San Jose. It was a wonderful trip, but a bit sketchy on the return. Dallas attained at least a foot of snow on Thursday where we arrived from San Jose in mid-afternoon, just in time to mess up flight plans from Dallas back to Seattle. Fortunately we got seats on Alaska Airlines, and after 3 hours on the tarmac in line for de-icing we were finally able to fly home, arriving only 3.5 hours later than originally planned.

Have you taken any big trips lately? Hope you are well and happy. Please greet your parents for us.

Best regards,

Jane LIttlefield

P.S. Marilyn and I also went on the OAT Costa Rica and found both tour and tour guide (Victor) absolutely the best.....

Chuck