Michael and Snowmaggdon!!!

A lot has happened since my last post!!

 

Michael and his mom, Faye, finally got here on Thursday, January 23rd around 4:30pm!! I was so  worried about them because they had to drive through a blizzard back home first before they could start their journey towards the south! They drove non-stop and were surprisingly not as tired as I was expecting them to be!! I was so excited when they got here!! Loneliness is not for me!! LOL. We unpacked Michael's car and then I gave them a tour of the apartment complex. After that, we drove to LIFE so that they could see my campus and then we ate dinner at the Marietta Diner.

 

Friday, I had to go to class, so while I was away, Michael and his mom rested and Michael started settling in and unpacking. That night, Faye's cousin and his wife who don't live very far away met us for dinner at P.F. Changs.  It was so nice to meet some more of his family, and now we have someone else who lives near us! After dinner, they came over and we visited for about an hour before they headed home.

 

On Saturday, we had a few hours before Faye's flight left that night, so I took them to Downtown Atlanta and we went to the Georgia Aquarium and ate lunch at the CNN Center. After being Downtown, we drove Faye to the airport and made sure she got to security before we headed back home. Faye did end up making it home safely, but once she landed in Fargo, she had to stay 2 more nights because of a really bad blizzard back home!

 

On Sunday, I finished up some homework and Michael and I hung out around the apartment. On Monday, there was news of Atlanta getting snow, (1-3" LOL) and since I still hadn't experienced snow here, we were NOT going to take a chance on hoping we had enough groceries. So Michael finally got to see some of the area and we went to the grocery store. IT. WAS. PACKED!! Michael was laughing, but I kept reminding him, this is terrifying here, and I didn't know how bad it would be. It ended up being the best decision we made!! That night, almost every school was on the bottom of the screen saying it was cancelled. Every school, but mine, of course.

 

When I left for class, it was snowing, and while it brought a smile to my face, it worried me what that might mean since no one here has ever really driven in snow. My class went fine, and the second it was over...school was cancelled. Annoyed that of course it would be AFTER my class, I went to the car and thought at least it's not very far away. Let me just tell you, my school is 2.4 miles away from my apartment. It took me 2 and a half hours to get home!!! Total gridlock, I saw so many cars in accidents and I was scared that someone might hit me at any moment. I finally was able to get to a back road which is why it took me so little to get home, if I had stayed on the same road it might have taken me 4 hours to get home.

 

I guess I had it good, as some drivers were stuck in their cars for over 20 hours or never made it home. It's been crazy! School was cancelled the next 2 days, so I had a short week of school!! Michael was going to go job hunting, but he was never able to leave the house! Lol. I'm so glad we went to the grocery store!! On Friday after everything had cleared up, I went back to class. Johanna came over for dinner that night and then the 3 of us went to see the movie Frozen. So cute!!

 

On Saturday, Michael and I went on a date and tried a restaurant called Seed. It was a casual fine dining restaurant. It reminded of us of Mezzaluna or John Alexander's in Fargo and Moorhead. The food was fabulous.

 

Yesterday while we watched the Super Bowl, Michael quizzed me on different countries and spellings of them because I had a geography test today. I THINK it went well! We get our grades back on Wednesday, so I will let you know!

 

Anyway, that's all we've really been up to. Hopefully there will be no more "winter storms" and Michael will be able to finally look for a job this week. That's all for now! Here are some pictures of our trip to the aquarium, the CNN center, and finally me in the car on Snowmaggedon!!

 

Seahorse

 

Jellyfish!

Lionfish!


This is called a spider crab, I'd love to eat those crab legs!




Beluga whales!



Penguins!



Whale shark and other fish!






At CNN with Anderson Cooper!! Or at least a very good lookalike cardboard cutout! LOL.


Michael and I at the CNN Center


This is how much snow had accumulated when school was cancelled....yeah, lol. This is also right before I got stuck in traffic. Look how happy I look, I don't know that I'm about to get stuck in my car for almost 3 hours!!



I'm not sure if you can see through all of the blurriness, but those cars go all the way back to the end of that road...and I had to turn on this street.



All the cars in front of me!



All the cars behind me!!



Absolute craziness!! I'm so glad I made it back safely!! Adios everyone!