Longest Winter Ever!

This winter just wont end! Last year in February we had consistent 50* days. Sure it got cold at night, but I was never tempted to wear my big winter coat to work the entire month. In fact I believe last winter I wore that big thing a total of maybe 10 days. Now it is March and Monday we had a snow day. There was ice under around 6-10" of snow depending on where you were in the area. I know you mid-westerners scoff at such conditions, but here they really don't have the equipment to deal with that snow and ice. We did have one normal February day on the 22nd. I happened to be on a Saturday so a bunch of us went to the Mall for the afternoon.

Alisha joined us for snacks and Frisbee

This is Ben, Grace's fiance. He was a little rusty. 

The sunset and the Capital at sunset are for you Mom.

Right as we were getting ready to go we saw this fox wandering around. No idea where it came from or what it was doing, but it was just on the lawn in front of the Museum of American History.

So that was the one day of spring. Three days later I left my house to head to work and this was our front garden. Currently it is even deeper (after the snow on Monday). 

In order to break up some of the monotony of winter Keith and Erica hosted a murder mystery dinner on Saturday. We were all given characters ahead of time (I was Cleptopatra) the light fingered Queen of the Nile. Everyone else was a roman. It was a box set complete with character profile booklets and a CD with background music. It was a lot of fun and we all enjoyed on another's costumes. 

I apologize that this post was so long delayed I hope all the pictures helped make up for it. I feel like I am constantly busy, but I am not exactly sure what it is that is keeping me so busy these days. Corey is enjoying London and feeling pretty well acquainted with the city. Because of the time difference we don't have much time to talk during the week (only over my lunch breaks, when I get them) so we try to talk on weekends. I am flying out on the 28th to see him and I am sure it will be great! We are going to spend one weekend in Dublin so that should be pretty awesome. 

Also coming up: Marlinda and Mom visit me! They are actually going to be here for the beginning of the Cherry Blossom Festival so they get to be part of the first wave of the new tourist season. I just hope it really is spring by then!