We’ve hunkered down to ride out this extremely uncharacteristic winter weather in Seattle. We’ve been here for a week, staying almost exclusively in our luxury hotel in Seattle. We needed to get out, and it looked like it was finally letting up for the weekend. Who would’ve thought that we were actually looking forward to a forecast of rain? The news reporter today, commented we should wave the white flag of surrender to the weather, but that it’s so white outside, the flag would just blend into the background.

Transportation was a complete mess for the whole week! We heard that even the airport ran out of de-icer, the trains and buses cancelled service and road bridges closed. Luckily, our hotel in located downtown, so we didn’t need to worry about all the public transportation woes. It has been stressful all the same, our plans of seeing Seattle has been mostly shot down. But, the weather did let up and it was soon going to rain!

We headed out to the Seattle Center to see the winter wonderland, which we were absolutely sure would still exist, even in the rain. We made there just at sunrise, yes we could actually see the sun peaking through the clouds, and lighting up the snow laden branches; the whole area sparkled! Seattleites made snowmen that seemed to be guarding the silent and still blanketed white lawn. The peacefulness was broken by the spinning tires of a truck stuck in the parking lot. We went over to lend a hand and helped push him out of the rut.

Now that the snow stopped falling, we extended our stay and managed to be even more active then we were used to, must be something about the rare sight of a good snow storm that made Seattle all the more special for us, plus the weather forecast is predicting more snow!

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