Day 183

The weather has been spring like here.  There hasn't been snow or temperatures below 50 in a few days and I am loving it.

This is what Home Depot looks like.  They're putting out lots of plants and I can't wait to start planting flowers (in a flower box of course), veggies, and herbs.  But I can't get too excited yet.  Unlike back in NC, it doesn't get this warm and cool down just a little bit for the next month or two; it gets right down cold again and it snows a lot more.  So while my bones are ready and itching for that nice spring NC weather, I know it's still a long ways out, so I'll enjoy it while I can!

Day 174

We're getting back into the swing of going to the gym first thing in the morning.  I love it.  It's just like my mom and I would do my senior year of high school.  We get up, pack our bag, and head off.  The big difference between now and then is this:

That is cold!  Throw in some wet hair and brrrrr.  Gives me the chilly willies.

Day 171

Snow.  Lots of snow.

You'd think I'd be sick of it by now.  But no.  This wonderful Colorado snow isn't like the snow in NC.  It's light and fluffy, often making me think of the fake snow that is used in theatre's for plays.  It just seems to float so gracefully.  And not turn into ice....well, that is until we get above freezing and then decide to go back down.

I must say, the weather here is a lot like it was in NC, just more extreme.  We go from wind chills of -30 to 45 then back down to 5.  And that's all within a week!  But that's okay.  At least there isn't the threat of those horribly dangerous ice storms.  Those are always bad news.

Day 103

I went down to the Craigville beach on Cape Cod today.  It was so cold windy.  If it weren't for the wind, it just would have been a cool fall morning.  I went because I had to take pictures for a project I was working on for my marine environment class, but it's more of a class on coastal marine environments.  Here's my favorite picture that I took.

Day 83

What a rainy and dreary day it was here in Boston today.  It's been like this for days....I'm starting to miss the sunny, warm weather of the South.

Day 57

Oh there's a Nor'easter coming.  Did you know that nor'easter just means lots of wind and rain/snow?  I didn't know that it applied to anything other than lots of snow.  But my first nor'easter is approaching.  We'll see how this goes.

Day 49

Today was miserable.  It was cold and misting and increadibly windy.  All day.  Non-stop.
However, that did not stop my marine professor from making us walk to the harbor and spend over an hour in the nasty weather looking at clams and algae and seaweed. 

Thank goodness I have a down-insulated waterproof jacket!  Thank you Macy's!!

Day Seventeen

Oh no!!!  Save me!!  Hurrican Earl is hitting Cape Cod!!!!  It's going to be awful!!!
*long pause*
Not.  This is so ridiculous.  The only way to describe how northerners react to a potential Category 2 hurricane whose eye is going to be 80 miles off of Nantucket is to say that it's kinda precisely how southerners react to potential snow.  They freak out.
Earl ended up dying down to a Category 1 before getting up here and, as noted before, the worst isn't even anywhere near Cape Cod.
So Gary (John's uncle) took me and his two kids (Alisa and Matthew) to the beach as the two had never experienced a hurricane before.  I'm used to seeing and hearing about giant swells and houses falling in the ocean, etc.  No kidding, the biggest wave I saw was about 3 feet.
But it was still really fun to see how excited everyone was.  Of course there was still the idiots that were swimming at dark with a hurricane ontop of us.  Genious.
Here's a picture of me and Matthew.  I know it's blurry and a little dark, so just look really hard.