We have been sleeping for most of the last 2 days. When we haven't been gaping at the snow. The view out of our window just about an hour ago was the picture below: Christmas in Kirkland!
When we arrived, we were shown to the room my parents prepared for us right away. It's above the garage and is next to the upstairs bathroom, at the far end of the hallway off the stairs. It's very private, and well-insulated - my parents had added a space heater, and the room was actually hot. We felt right at home. :-)
I took the picture below from the door, looking into the room. You can see Pui sitting on the sofa, recovering from our ordeal of sitting for hours and hours.
Yesterday we were going to have a couple of relatives over for Christmas Eve dinner, but another storm blew in so it was only us four for an enormously delicious feast. After all of that eating and napping, we needed to catch up on some more sleep.
Christmas morning I woke up early and went downstairs while Pui slept. I fixed breakfast for her, and after a couple of hours she came back up and snuggled in for a nap - that's the picture below.
All day long so far, it has rained or snowed. This weather makes it hard for the local wildlife. There are a bunch of hummingbirds around that have to be awfully cold. The picture below is of a bird about 3 1/2 inches long (8 cm or so). You can sort of see the snow falling behind her.
Walking is treacherous in this stuff, much less driving. We are very glad to be somewhere safe and warm! Just one more in our long list of things to be thankful for on this day.
Have a merry Christmas everyone!
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