robert and laura: blizzard in dc

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more snow came and kept robert from going to new orleans and I'm trying to be sad about it

robert was accepted to a literary conference and was supposed to go to new orleans this weekend to present his paper but all flights were canceled. he really wanted to go but i'm really glad he gets to stay here with me.

we went to see thomas jefferson yesterday, and robert snowboarded down his front steps.

we met a couple of guys there who came to snowboard. their camera died so we exchanged pictures for a ride.

we're really not sick of the snow. we love it. but it's a pain when your city only has a couple of snow plows.

this is robert yesterday

and this is robert 4 years ago in the summertime

and we were the only ones there,

except for the snowboarders

are you sick of snow pictures yet?

thanks to mom and dad brown for this date night!

we watched the snow fall while eating dinner at Ray's the Steaks. those steaks are so good (but we still like Ray's Hell Burger better because it's cheaper and we're cheeseburger people).

dessert at baked and wired. yum!

georgetown in snow

DC Snowmageddon

We got an Idaho-sized blizzard for the second time this year.

We made a fancy sled out of a trashed piece of cardboard and a garbage bag.

Worked like a charm.

Z Burger offered to sell $1 cheeseburgers if the snow piled up over a foot, so we took the almost two hour trip north (two hours because the metros were extremely delayed), and it was worth it.

Goodbye arteries.

rock salt

They say it's going to take 48 hours after the last snow fall to get the city clean.

Cool mistake.

This was a half-second exposure and we had no tripod, so Laura was the tripod. She kept extraordinarily still.

We met up with Jess and Amol. They were involved in an epic snow battle earlier (it made the BBC), and met up with us for some hot chocolate.

We rode the metro . . . map elephant

I know I probably should have grown past this stage, but I've always wanted to slide down a metro escalator. I think about it every time I walk down one, particularly when I'm in a hurry. Well, I finally got to live my life's dream (more or less).

I can die a happy man.

After this Laura was caught, and we were asked politely to leave. Why does that always happen to us?

DC Blizzard (again)

It snowed a lot today (10 inches so far?) and we could get over two feet before tomorrow night. We did some impromptu sledding, dropped off some papers at Laura's work, and wandered around a little. We'll have more pictures tomorrow I'm sure.