Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe time ringing in the New Year 2008! Can you believe it is here already? The holidays are finished and now I stare at all of my decorations we all worked so hard putting up - they have to come down at some point!
We had a very eventful New Year's weekend! Our good friends from Ireland were vacationing in Breckenridge, a ski resort about 1.5 hours from us. We decided to go up for the weekend and stay a night and visit! Little did we know there was a blizzard and 100 mph winds on the way!
We ended up getting stuck in Frisco just outside of Breckenridge as they closed down the major interstate I-70 - the only way in and out of town. The winds were so bad they cr
eated such an avalanche danger that the highway was closed for 60 miles both ways! We could not see the car 15 ft in front of us - a complete white out.
We heard that the hwy would open up again around 2pm so we naturally checked out of our hotel room and just an hour later they announced that the highway was closed indefinitely! That term indefinitely" made me very nervous as it seems so final! Not a room was to be found in town. They all booked up faster than I could dial. Luckily our friends were in Breckenridge still and had their condo. We dropped in to the jam packed Walmart to stock up on supplies and headed back up the mountain to spend New Year's Eve with our friends - 8 adults and 8 kids (6 of them age 5 and under LOL).
5pm rolled around and they now announced the highway was open and they would let people drive through in a controlled release to not cause jams. We decided to wait, ordered in some great (but expensive$ - gotta love those resort prices) Chinese and drank some wine for a couple hours before venturing home.
All in all it was a fun, cold, frustrating, scary and crazy weekend! What a way to end 2007!
The funny thing is we only were around our "Irish" friends for about 38 hours, but we happened to pick up a bit of the Irish accent! I could not stop accentuating my words at the end of my sentences and even my 5 yr old sounded a wee bit Irish!
We had a very eventful New Year's weekend! Our good friends from Ireland were vacationing in Breckenridge, a ski resort about 1.5 hours from us. We decided to go up for the weekend and stay a night and visit! Little did we know there was a blizzard and 100 mph winds on the way!
We ended up getting stuck in Frisco just outside of Breckenridge as they closed down the major interstate I-70 - the only way in and out of town. The winds were so bad they cr
eated such an avalanche danger that the highway was closed for 60 miles both ways! We could not see the car 15 ft in front of us - a complete white out.We heard that the hwy would open up again around 2pm so we naturally checked out of our hotel room and just an hour later they announced that the highway was closed indefinitely! That term indefinitely" made me very nervous as it seems so final! Not a room was to be found in town. They all booked up faster than I could dial. Luckily our friends were in Breckenridge still and had their condo. We dropped in to the jam packed Walmart to stock up on supplies and headed back up the mountain to spend New Year's Eve with our friends - 8 adults and 8 kids (6 of them age 5 and under LOL).
5pm rolled around and they now announced the highway was open and they would let people drive through in a controlled release to not cause jams. We decided to wait, ordered in some great (but expensive$ - gotta love those resort prices) Chinese and drank some wine for a couple hours before venturing home.
All in all it was a fun, cold, frustrating, scary and crazy weekend! What a way to end 2007!
The funny thing is we only were around our "Irish" friends for about 38 hours, but we happened to pick up a bit of the Irish accent! I could not stop accentuating my words at the end of my sentences and even my 5 yr old sounded a wee bit Irish!
1 comment:
LOVE the pictures! Looks like so much fun! Of course now we know how much fun it really wasn't, lol.
Some fun, just not the storm! :)
glad you all made it home safely!
Lesa
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