when school has been cancelled for over a week...

...because of ridiculous amounts of snow, it feels so good to get out. Ben hasn't been in the classroom since February 5th and we didn't clean any buildings at camp last week for fear of getting lost in a snow drift. When it was finally relatively safe to venture out in to the world we decided to keep ourselves busy with some out-of-the-house activities.

We did some sledding at Ben's family's farm.

I mainly took pictures, but did my fair share of sledding too.

I feared a little bit that Ben or Kristi would break one (or more) bones.

Then, we spent a day walking the not so cleared sidewalks of DC.

We even met up with a DC dwelling friend who, unfortunately, had a hard time digging his car out from being plowed in on the street- but it was so good to see him and so good spend time with friends who were willing to brave the mess that was DC.

A stranger offered Ben a dollar if he was willing to walk out on the reflecting pool.

He was a man of his word.

Valentine's day was yet another good excuse to get out of the house... And what is v-day without a feather boa?