Snowpocalypse 2010

We got twenty inches of snow this weekend. It was the most snow I — Florida girl that I am — had ever seen. It was also the most snow the DC native I married had ever seen. Our power stayed on throughout the blizzard, but several of our friends weren’t so lucky. Those that weren’t, came to camp out at our place.

Yes, that’s right. We had a huge SLUMBER PARTY.

Actually, it was so much fun, we wondered why we’d never done it before. Why did we stop having slumber parties as teens? We played board games, baked brownies and cookies (the latter at eleven o’clock at night), watched movies, talked, played in the snow, made French toast in the mornings, ate ice cream for dinner. (Well, some of us. I had spaghetti.) Actually, we ate so much food this weekend. It was ridiculous. There was always something on the stove. The list of things made to eat in our house this weekend:

• brownies
• hot cocoa
• tea
• nachos
• baked pasta with peas and cream sauce
• macaroni and cheese
• peas and carrots
• coffee
• french toast
• grapefruit halves
• spaghetti with bolognese
• chocolate chip pecan cookies
• chicken noodle soup
• lamb curry
• popcorn

And all that stuff is gone now. All gone. Not to mention several pints of ice cream, a ton of veggies and chips and salsa and hummus, several gallons of milk, a gallon each of limeade and orange juice, candy, nuts, oranges…Yep, I think we staved off the cold pretty well. At one point, we had seven people and three dogs in our little house. It was a rollicking good time.

Were you caught in the storm this weekend? What did you do?