Syracuse 75 Georgetown 71

On Thursday night my dad and I went to the Syracuse basketball game against Georgetown in downtown DC. It was a ridiculous game as we had a lead of 22 with about 11 minutes left, and managed to allow Georgetown to get within 1 point with about a minute to go. It was quite nerve-racking for fans of the Orange, but it definitely made for an exciting game.


This girl had her jersey on backwards when she got to the arena...


As we headed to the metro station after the game we came across a hilarious scene. A bunch of Syracuse fans had joined in with some street musicians by dancing and singing along with the words "Go 'Cuse!" over and over again. Here's a short video clip.



We rode the metro with these dudes after the game. The one on the right is a Syracuse student who had driven down that day.


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Day 2.

One of the first things I did this morning was walk to the end of the driveway to see if our street had gotten plowed.....no it did not.



Arguably even worse, they had tried to plow it and got stuck! This left a large mound of icy snow balls half way up our street. After a few hours shoveling with some neighbors we got through our portion of the street and the icy snow mountain.


As one neighbor pointed out during our shoveling, the only ones who like this much snow are kids and dogs. I guess this is because they don't have to shovel. It is true however, that our dog really likes the snow.



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It doesn't snow that much in Maryland...

...this is what people told us when we moved here. And apparently that usually is the case. This weekend, however, we are in the middle of the second huge snow storm this winter. It is important to understand that people here are not used to snow storms, and the general public kind of freaks out from a few inches. For example, last Saturday afternoon we got about 3 inches and our Sunday morning church service was canceled despite the fact that there wasn't even any snow on the roads anymore.

So with this weekend's actual blizzard, it's a real possibility that most people won't leave their houses for several weeks. This storm would qualify as a legit snow storm in New York, Michigan, or Colorado.

When I woke up the morning and went to let the dog out the front door, I had a hard time getting it open because there was so much snow blocking our door.


It is now about 2 pm and I've spent about 5 hours of my day shoveling, and it's still snowing. Here was the view looking out onto our deck.


There was so much snow that at first the only way Zoe the dog could move around was to do a full leap each time she moved. The result of this hard work was a series of paths throughout our yard that she runs through repeatedly at a full sprint.


Here's a couple of pics of the snow about 6" of snow ago.



Becky playing in the snow with the dog.


Is it ridiculous that our dog makes it in about 50% of the pictures on this blog? If we take this many pictures of our dog, I can't imagine what it will be like when we have a human child.

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