Windy with a chance of being snowed in.

Our Christmas tree did come on time and so did pretty much all our gifts. The Wednesday before Christmas Tom called me to tell me that we had gotten 6 new packages! Yay! But when he went to the front desk of the post office to pick them up it was closed even though it should have been opened. There was a sign at the desk that said, "We will be closed Dec 22th and Dec. 24th." What?! Plus they had been closed the Saturday before. One of the package claim slips said the package had been received 2 days before. Keep in mind we had been going to the post office every day. So Tom knocked on the door until someone came. They said that they were behind in things so they needed to be closed to catch up. They gave him some of his packages but said the others were too buried and he would have to come back tomorrow to get them. Tom asked if he could go look for them and so she said he could. He found them quickly on the top of the piles.

Here is our little Christmas tree and the window behind it plastered with snow.

In other news we have been having a lot of crazy wind.  Gusting up to around 55 mph and not getting much below 30mph. Because of this most the teachers who were headed out for Christmas were stuck here longer than planed. One teacher and her husband, who must have been inspired, left a day early and just missed the delays. All the others who had planed to go out Friday afternoon or Saturday had to wait until Monday. This wouldn't have been so bad but because it is such a busy time to fly many of them had to wait a few days in Anchorage or other layovers for an available seat. Most of them got to their final destinations almost a week late.

When Tom and I were deciding when to come down we were both feeling a little aprihensive about going home for Christmas. This is why we decided to go home for Thanksgiving instead. When I ended up going home early I thought that, that must be the reason but it looks like we were blessed in more ways than one.