Back from DC

What word would I use to describe the last 4 days? CRAZY.

Almost immediately upon arrival into DC, the "storm of the century" hit. Record snow falls completely shut down the entire city, including the airport. Luckily - we made it down to Derek's graduation, but they quickly kicked everyone out after the ceremony to get back to hotels safely.

I will do a more thorough blog later as well as post additional pics, but for now I'll leave you with this picture for a small glimpse into our weekend. Every museum was shut down, all flights cancelled and non-stop snow.

With everyone needing to get back into KC on Sunday for some reason or another, we had no choice but to rent a car and make the 16 hour drive. We seemed to forget until a couple of hours in, however, that with the weather, our drive would be more like 20 hours total. We lucked out getting the last SUV in town and piled in 6 people and 11 pieces of luggage to start the hike. Leaving Saturday night, we made a 5-hour 'rest stop' at a hotel and ended up making it into Kansas City about 10pm last night.... withOUT killing each other!

We're enjoying a lazy morning as we're soon off on a road trip basically from the same area we just came from. After this week, we'll have spent about 32+ hours in a car. Good times.