So last week!
Two memorable eVenTs:
1. Jimmy Fallon Show & 2. Storm Jonas
Jimmy Fallon
First off, my awesome friend T flew in to go to the show with us, and my amazing friend from church, coupled with Carol and Dave split the time babysitting the boys so we could spend the day in Manhattan waiting and attending The Tonight Show.
This was an incredible experience. We waited in the Peacock lounge where we filled out surveys for the family feud game they later played on the show. They escorted us to our seats in the theater and a warm up comedian hyped us into the mood for the Roots to take stage and then Jimmy, who soon followed through that magnificent blue curtain! The cast line up-Awful; however, on the commercial break he came into the audience and stood right next to John, T, and I. He answered T's question, and talked to us for the entire break. At the very end of the show when Jimmy went into the crowd for high fives Travis was one of the first ones you see on camera; he was so focused on the delivery of the high five, in his words he looked "like a tool." Our friend Whitney, next to him, had this amazing face after missing a five from Jimmy, and her husband... Tom... Well he was out there Dancing like a Loon!! Seriously, we watched it 100x's.
What an incredible experience.
~StOrMaGedDoN~
This was equally incredible, if not more. We kept being told it was coming, but the skies were starry and clear. Even coming home from Jimmy Fallon, there were no signs. At 2:00am it started. It just kept coming. We received a lockdown notice so before that went into act, T and I "suited up" and traipsed through the snow to the grocery store to buy a few things. At home we ate our traditional "Snow Storm Oreo Shakes" (started in Poland). By the end of the night we received word the airport was shut down and Travis wouldn't be able to leave to Chicago, and T would be stuck with us a little longer. The only thing Trav could do... was jump in the snow... in nothing but gym shorts, just like he used to on swim team; he's a maniac.
Sunday Trav woke with the idea he would dig the car out and drive through the snow buried streets..
BaHahahahahahahahaha.... right?
It took him 2 hrs just to get a path cleared to the gate. The alley took 7 of us digging and snow blowing before we could get cars to maneuver in and out. He wasn't going anywhere. We ran into the problem of having nowhere to put the endless snow, so our neighbors suggested letting it blow into the backyards of the homes below us; this worked fine until a man came out and started yelling through the fence with my neighbor. Their conversation ended like this "this is illegal in Brooklyn!" "Well then go back to Brooklyn, ya bum! Here in Queens we have a sense of community!!" In the thickest accents I'd ever heard.
Since T's flight was rescheduled for Monday night and the roads were slowly clearing up, she and I ran around Manhattan with almost No One else around (The museum was EMPTY!) before coming back to find out Travis could still make his rotation he left immediately. So he did. Then T soon followed. And it was just me and the boys...
... and that is where we're at.
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| No Sidewalk... We had to walk in the roads |
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| Trap trying to flatten the wall to pack on more snow |
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| I've never been in this room without Tons of other people! |
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We've built a snow mountain and added a slide, I started back to school which of course, means I'm starting to get sick. Travis is staying with his friend, Ajay while in Chicago so he's enjoying himself. Before starting to feel ill, I've spent the past few days dejunking and trying to deep clean our place. Hopefully I'll finish before I just give up!
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| They love the slide! |
And that was our awesome week! We ended up with 27ish inches of snow, stood in the middle of our busy Metropolitan road with NO cars for a once in a lifetime experience, and have a constant stream of wet socks, hats, mittens, and boots surrounding our heaters!
Here's hoping THAT was our winter and we can just move onto Spring! ;)
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| Metropolitan with NO cars! Amazing! |
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