knits, notes, etc.

Plenty of snow, wind, and ice... And somewhere in the mix, I had a lovely drink of hot mulled cider with port at Shay's Pub and Wine Bar, shopped for gifts with a friend at Newbury Street, and had a delicious dinner of salmon ramen at Wagamama followed by dessert (samplings of tiramisu, molten chocolate cake, and cheesecake) and port at Finale. The weekend really should have ended with a Christmas party in Waltham. But, here we are the next day, still in New England. All thanks to more snow, wind, and ice.

We woke up this morning to whiteness blowing to-and-fro outside our hotel window. It wasn't unexpected--I mean, we had been warned of snow-fall since leaving the west coast. We met up with some friends in the lobby but decided to forgo breakfast at the hotel so that we could make our flight (which we were told was not cancelled).

Snow, from the taxi's window. Doesn't this look like an oil painting?

Ninety dollars poorer, we walked into Logan at 11:45AM to find on the monitor that our 2:35PM flight to San Francisco, via Charlotte, was indeed cancelled (no flights were leaving). We booked new flights for tomorrow morning (San Francisco, via Philadelphia) and left the airport intending to go to West Concord. (Yeah, I just wanted to play with Piglet.)

We took a bus from the airport to the subway station, caught the Blue line to Government Center, and caught the Green line to North Station. As we walked into the commuter train station, Adam checked his voicemail and learned that we had just missed a train to West Concord. Actually, we managed to miss our trains at each of the connection points. After a few phone calls and a breakfast/lunch of Dunkin' Donuts's coffee and sausage, egg, and cheese on an English muffin, we hopped back on the Green line.

Adam walking on Davis Street.

This time, we rode it past Government Center to Park Street, where we switched to the Red Line to Davis Street in Summerville.

After this morning, I think I've had my fill of snow. This was the best thing I saw all day, someplace to dry off and get warm, put up our feet, and (at least for me) knit. Oh, of course it was great to have this extra evening to relax with our friends:

Nick, Jess, and the snow.

I hear there is more snow expected for tonight... But, this time, I really hope it doesn't delay us in New England another day. I'm ready to go home.