Blizzard!

Two nights ago, it started snowing...a lot. Then, the wind picked up, and we were the hapless victims of an official blizzard (according to the local meteorologists). I (Nathan) didn't suffer to much for this weather (due to the fact that DIA closed all traffic, I didn't have to go in to work), but Erin still had to make it in to the hospital to work. It's too bad hospitals are one of those places that can just never close! Anyway, she had to stay there today and try to get some sleep after her shift, and she is still there, helping to usher new lives into this world.

One of the local news stations did a story on her department at UCH that you may find interesting. You can view it here. Go Erin!

Our friends overseas may recognize this car...the scrape is from being rear-ended. The car still works great! Anyway, the Civic is almost totally buried in snow drifts after our recent huge blizzard. According to the local news station, we got 26 inches of snow. The drifts make it seem like we got far more than that.

Our contracted snow removal company didn't come out immediately, so disgruntled owners called the HOA and received results...BIG results, as you can see. There's nothing more comforting than seeing a 15 ton front-end loader sliding around in the parking lot. Ahh, the relaxing beep of a reverse warning! I've got to say, this operator knew what he was doing. He finessed this snow removal job and did such a great job...I've never seen snow removal happen this quickly here before.

Yep, you're seeing it correctly...that is the right tail light of a car that was unfortunately parked exactly where snow wanted to drift.

Here is the walkway to our stairs. As you can see, the snow definitely created some challenges, but none too difficult.

Here is the snow that drifted onto our retaining wall that is at the foot of the stairs. It makes us city slickers feel at least a little like those who live in the mountain snow every winter!

Here was the sunset tonight after the storm dissipated. Wow...God's awesome creative fingerprints are all over His creation!

San Diego Zoo

October Trip to the San Diego Zoo

Erin and I went to San Diego for a day to go to their world famous zoo. We were so unbelievably tired that day...good thing we took pictures! Otherwise, I have no idea how much of that day we would have remembered. Erin worked the night before, and neither of us were used to waking up as early as we needed to in order to get to the airport on time. Nonetheless, it was a very fun day out on the west coast.

Polar Bear looking for his toy...

This hawk swooped over our heads as it showed its impressive diving ability.

This golden retriever and cheetah live in the same cage. In fact, the dog is the cheetah's security blanket. She relaxed noticeably when she saw that her dog friend was there with her.