So the wind is blowing, at times, at 70 MPH.  No biggie.  I drove to work once in a hurricane so I figured this was going to be just fine.  But, the idea of going near the Sound or Seattle did give me pause.  That said, I didn’t want to stay in the house all day so we headed out to explore for a bit.

I have had a hard time figuring out what to wear since I have arrived.  When I’m in Kent, Tukwila, etc. I only need a windbreaker.  But when I’m in Enumclaw I’m fine with the windbreaker one minute and the next my full wool coat still has me shivering.  Can’t find a happy medium.

Well, when we left today I noticed the weatherman said that Seattle was 49 degrees so I planned on just taking a wind breaker.  Dumb.  Very dumb.  At the last minute Dana grabbed an extra sweatshirt but still it was nowhere near enough.

We loaded up in the pick up (sans any sort of traction like tires) and headed to Snoqualmie Falls.  Last night I was reading the Seattle paper and there was a little blip about how the falls were particularly breathtaking right now due to the extra rain.  I had seen multiple pictures of the falls but those photos were nothing like what we saw today.

Before I show you the photos let me just state that we spent less than 5 minutes at the observation tower because we were freezing.  Freezing. To. Death.

We figure we saw the falls when they were quite amazing but we’ll spend more time when they may not be quite as amazing but we’ll be significantly warmer.

After leaving the falls we went to get some hot chocolate (or in AG’s case…. lukewarm chocolate) and a cookie at a local bakery in North Bend.  We had a little bit of time to kill before we needed to head home for AG’s lunch and nap so we headed east on Interstate 90 (Snoqualmie Pass?) and went up to the west summit.  And we found it…. SNOW!  Woo Hoo.

Florida girl + snow + too cold to get out of truck = bad photographs

We only had a few bad gusts during our explorations.  We did, however, have some weird ones last night and we have lost our power on and off (just for a few minutes at a time) since last night.  We did pass one fallen tree up at Black Diamond (Black Diamond = next town north) but other than that this area seems a bit unscathed by the storm.  Apparently the closer you get to the water the more unlucky you become.  Lots of folks without power and many with no guarantees that the power will return in time for the superbowl.  I feel kinda bad for those folks, they’ve waited so long for this only to miss it in the end.  Bummer.