Snow Everywhere.

White is all over the place. A beautiful, white fluff covers everything.

Yesterday, we had our staff retreat. We all went to Glendwood Springs Amusement Park. There was a rollercoaster, lazer tag, and a cave tour.

I had the privilege to ride the rollercoaster three times with Elli Mackendrick. Ray, Guest Services' managers' oldest daughter. He has a 6-year-old, Katie, and 8-year-old, Ellie. They couldn't be anymore different. Katie has red hair and is a fire-cracker. She calls me Gaybe. While Ellie is blonde and sweet and always smiling.

Sure, I loved the rollercoaster and laughing during the cave tour. But, the best part of the entire day was the first time Ellie reached for my hand to hold it--I melted.

Oh, and Reid and Andrew got crazy and went on the rollercoaster without their shirts. Crazy kids.

On the way home from the park, we decided to follow Andrea's husband and their family. He thought it would be a great idea to take an adventure and take the "forest" road home because it takes 45 minutes instead of 2 and half hours. So Grace, who was driving, agreed.

We later find out no one takes this road in the winter. They don't plow it and no one maintains this road. It also is going to shut down in a couple of weeks because it is used for snowmobile tours. Awesome.

I am pretty sure none of us knew what we agreed to. Grace has a two-wheel, standard shift, honda civic. She has no snow tires but she does have chains just in case.

It was dark. There was a blizzard. We were in a forest. As we drove, the snow went over the car like a tidal wave. At first, I was enjoying it and thought this is a great adventure.

That excitement soon died when we got stuck and I had to get out of the back seat with Reid and Casey so we can sit on the front hood of the car to give it some weight. We were sliding all over the place and we completely stuck. The snow was coming down hard and I was freezing.

Those that were in the car we were following came and tried to help. They couldn't get it moving. So plan B--put her chains on. After being out there for 20 minutes they got the chains on.

The story isn't quite over. They accidentally put the chains on inside out, so the chains fell off two more times and we got stuck two more times. The storm only got worse, and Grace had to stick her head out of the window with the snow and wind blowing in her face.

The best part is that the chains were sparking a lot and I thought the car was on fire. It also didn't help that the heater was blowing in my face, and I of course thought that it was the heat from the "fire." I had a mini panic attack and thought the car was going to explode. They all soon reassured me that it was normal and to calm down.

Dad, I know I took a risk by writing this in my blog cause you are probably freaking out right now. But don't worry we will not be taking that way again, and we had a lot of people who knew what they were doing.

So that was my "adventure" a.k.a near death experience--just kidding I'm exaggerating, but it was a little scary for a while.

This morning we had to be at work at 7 a.m. We have to get to work at 7 a.m. on days that it snows a lot. Well, we shoveled for an hour and a half this morning....and then we shoveled again for another hour and a half later that afternoon.

And now we are going to go play indoor soccer. My new favorite thing to do.