Boy, did it snow!

Well, we returned from the mountains of NC a short while ago, and all I can say is, "Boy, did it ever snow!" We knew it was going to snow, and that it would be a good one, but we did not expect to be snowed in our cabin, and unable to drive our car up to our cabin last night. We got there Friday night, and got cozied up in the cabin, nice fire going in the fireplace and prepared ourselves for the impending snow that was to come. Snow, it did, and we woke up Saturday morning to the sound of the snowplow cleaning the road up to the cabins. A winter wonderland, the snow had capped everything not moving, and was truly a beautiful sight to wake up to. We left Saturday morning, and visited the Mast General Stores in Valle Crucis, working old-time general stores that have been open for a hundred years. From there we went to Banner Elk, watched some sledding, and drove to Sugar Mountain to see the skiers, who were in MASS abundance due to the incredible new snowfall. We then relaxed the rest of the day, taking in all the beautiful scenery, and sights and sounds of downtown Boone.
Well, we thought by getting back to the cabin kinda early we would be okay with getting up the steep, winding road to our cabin, as the temperatures were dropping in the low 20's and the roads were icing over. Well, it did not take us long going up the hill before we started losing traction on the thick, black ice, and started sliding sideways. I carefully turned around, and parked our car at the bottom of the hill to leave it there overnight. Soooo, that meant we would have to take the few things we had and walk up the icy, steep, winding hill in the now blizzard-like snows. It took about 20 minutes for us to get to the top, and by that time we were just glad to be there. We relaxed in the cabin the rest of the night with a nice roaring fire, and munchies, and crappy TV. We did watch the snow as it came down, putting us to sleep.
We awoke Sunday knowing we needed to get down as soon as we could, IF we could. The snowplow guy was scraping the road, but the mass snowfall was covering it up as quick as he could plow, and the road was still covered with that dangerous black ice, so we decided we would have to carry all our stuff down with us and leave from the bottom of the hill. Soooo, we then gathered all our stuff for the weekend, duffel bags, pillows, bags of foods, jackets, and a nice sized cooler filled with Cokes and food, and headed down the hill into the impending snow that was falling steadily as it had all weekend, but now seemed a little harder as we headed straight into it. Well, about 15 minutes we were at the Vue, and loaded it up and headed home.
Well, this is beginning to remind me of a novel, so I will cut it short. God did allow us to rest and rejuvenate, and we both needed the time away from the things that accompany the life we left back home. God met us there, and helped me with some attitude things I needed to deal with after all that happened last week. Thanks for all the cool e-mails and prayers, too, by the way. They have been very cool and a definite blessing to April and I.