A Tiny Tree and More Snow

After our extended trip to Yankton, we finally arrived in Sioux Falls on Tuesday. The bug that Xander had attacked me in a different way making a return to work unlikely that night as I would have probably spent as much time in the bathroom as at my desk. It was good to get back to where the power had never gone out and the furnace was working after being without power in Yankton from about 11:40 pm on Monday until the time we left the next afternoon.

Sioux Falls had had almost six inches of snow which wasn't too bad considering what it could have been. Travel had been a bit slow as some of the roads were clearer than others. We weren't in any hurry since I'd already called work to tell them I wouldn't be in. It took us about two hours and fifteen minutes to do a drive that usually takes us about 90 minutes. Not too bad all things considered.

We settled in at the house, Amy taught a few lessons, I unpacked and we looked forward to a lazy night at home. We decorated for Christmas (admittedly, not one of my favorite things) and tried to figure out what was usable from our arsenal and what needed to stay in the basement. Unfortunately, the big tree had to stay in the basement. We thought about putting it on the back porch, but it's so cold out there that neither of us was interested in freezing in order to put up a tree where we would just walk past it on our way in and out of the house.

We did set up a little tree in the living room by the fireplace which Xander decorated with non-breakable ornaments. Amy likens the tree to Charlie Brown's and it does look a little dwarfed by pretty much everything in the apartment with the exception of Maia. We'll probably wait to put presents under the tree until we're ready to open some for fear that they might hide the tree (not to mention that they would all be unwrapped by a certain blonde haired tornado who leaves a trail of destruction through the house throughout the day).

I finally made it to work last night shortly after it began snowing again. It came down until shortly before I came home at midnight and we wound up with six inches of fresh snow on top of the six we had. It's not supposed to get out of the teens today and is supposed to remain cold for awhile, so I don't think the snow's going anywhere soon. It's also probably safe to say that my cycling is done for the year.