We knew in advance that KJ's school was closed, Cosmo closed his office and we all had a wonderfully relaxing day at home in the snow. We shoveled the driveway, played with the dog in the snow and met several neighbors. KJ walked over to her friend Connor's house and a bunch of the neighborhood kids walked over to the park to go snowboarding. The plow hadn't been down our street yet and the snow was up over our knees. Cosmo had to make a path for her so she could get to Connor's. On the way, they met the new neighbors on the corner. KJ said they just moved here from North? South? Carolina (she couldn't remember) and they had a little girl. KJ thought the little girl was about 2 and said she was having so much fun in the snow. Cosmo uncovered our sidewalk and cleared it over to the neighbor's on our left. He finally got to meet Mr. W who graduated from Alabama, went on to TN for his Master's and New Mexico for his PhD. Naturally, the conversation turned to Alabama football and the SEC. Since the plow still hadn't come through, we didn't bother shoveling the end of the driveway. Once the plow finally came down our street, it made a huge mountain of snow near the mailbox. So in the late afternoon Cosmo went out to tackle the glacier. By this time the snow had gotten quite heavy and wet so another neighbor came over to help him out with a small plow on the end of his lawn mower. And then it snowed again overnight. So, Friday morning Cosmo was shoveling out again. The Pastor from next door came over and gave him a hand. See! Snow days can be fun!!!
This weekend is the Capital Hill Classic volleyball tournament at the DC Convention center. Holy moly. The largest tournament I had attended was the Regional's in Atlanta. This is probably 5 times that. Almost 900 volleyball teams from all over the country (girls from ages 12 to 18). Our friend from Hoover, Amanda, had mentioned several times that she'd like to see KJ play so when she saw my post on FB about the tournament, she texted me and said she was on her way. She got to the convention center in time to watch KJ's 7 and 8 PM games. Amanda played volleyball in youth leagues like KJ and also played in high school. I think she'd be a good coach! After the games we all grabbed a bite to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe and had a good time catching up! KJ played well but they lost a couple of games they shouldn't have. She's an incredibly consistent server and is enjoying her first season as setter. Unfortunately, we don't have much of a defense.
KJ's team was in the afternoon wave today and has some very late games so I did not go to the tournament today (we got home last night around 1 AM, of course I was wired and couldn't settled down. I finally fell asleep around 5 AM but woke up at 9 AM. So yeah, I'm operating on less than 4 hours of sleep). I was on FB and noticed a friend of our's from high school posted about watching his daughter play at a tournament in DC! So, I quick wrote on Zap's wall (his nickname in high school), texted Cosmo and voila! The two of them met up and got to visit for a while. I think they saw each other last year at the alumni lax game but still! I love the power of the Internet!
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