Snow is back...

It didn't leave us for long, but it was long enough to start enjoying the "warmer" weather. It hadn't snow in Anchorage for two weeks and on top of that we had record breaking highs for the month of February. So basically the two weeks was long enough for a lot of the snow to melt, finally see our driveway, and the "grass" (which honestly is some kind of hay that they must put on the ground so that when all the snow does melt your able to see some kind of green tint plant, it is a sense of false hope). This morning when I woke up we had already gotten several inches of snow, the shovel returns.

This is what they call "Break" , (since Alaska doesn't really have much of a spring). The "Break" is the period of time in which winter meets summer. From what we have heard it creates one big mess too, and most likely the roads will be shut down for a few days. What happens is that it gets warm enough for some snow to start melting, and water is just about everywhere, but before that clears up it gets below freezing again and starts snowing, so all that snow that turned into water turns into ice. So unless you have 18 dogs and are sledding to work, you can't really go anywhere. The only really good news in all this is that it has started and everyday that passes is a closer day to summer.