Alaska Winter Firsts

When winter hit we were told it's only a matter of time until our car gets stuck in the snow.  Even AWD/4WD ones. I still thought it was just the dumbos that actually get stuck though. Well, my pride got the better of me and I have now become a dumbo.

I was 5 minutes EARLY in getting to my visiting teaching appointment. I had never met the lady before. My GPS was telling me the route and I started driving down a "road" that had some tire tracks in it. About halfway down the "road", I could see a fallen tree.  The "smart me" knew that I couldn't drive over that. So I started to back up.  I got stuck in the snow. While I was trying to get unstuck, I gunned it and ended up hitting a huge pile of snow behind me. Then I really got stuck.

After calling the lady I was supposed to be visiting and crying on the phone to her (great first conversation), I called Geico and they sent out a tow truck to pull me out. Almost 2 hours later, we made it back home having accomplished nothing.  It is times like these that I have NO REGRETS for our rear entertainment system in the van.

The "road" my GPS was telling me to go down....I hate our GPS.

The van was stuck on top of an old, crusty chunk of snow.

My bumper popped off. :(

On a happy note, I took the van to a dealership in town to get a quote for fixing the bumper. They fixed it within 3 minutes and said it was no charge.  This is the same dealership that has already fixed something for me free of charge. They have definitely won my business for all of our other car needs. 


We also built our first REAL snowman.  We built a few tiny ones in Ohio, but this was the real deal.  Unfortunately the weather got warm really quickly after we built him and he melted away. Isaac was a little distraught.

"Ice skating" on the driveway

When Dad throws a snowball and it hits your face...