It is officially winter in Park City, and this time I think it is here to stay. I haven’t really been looking forward to it. I have been enjoying my photography business and I know that it will slow down now that winter is here. Most people just don’t want to brave the snow and cold to have their pictures taken. But, I really can’t complain. It has been a great fall. We had unseasonably warm weather almost right up to yesterday’s snowstorm.

Now that the snow is here, I am actually kind of enjoying it. I snowblowed the driveway twice in the last 24 hours.

What I didn’t enjoy about the snow was getting stuck on I-80 last night. I was on my way home from Scott’s hockey game with the kids. It was a blizzard. The roads were snowy, but not too bad. As we approached our exit off the freeway, traffic started slowing down. Then it came to a complete stop. I could see my exit up ahead, but there was no way I could get to it. All lanes of traffic were blocked and there was no shoulder. We ended up being stuck there for an hour and a half. I think that Parley’s Canyon was closed due to an accident. The traffic backed up and there was nowhere to go. The worst part was that if I had taken the frontage road, we never would have gotten stuck. Luckily I had stopped at Taco Maker on the way home. The kids ate in the car and then watched a movie. They were fine, it was mom who got impatient.

Finally, the traffic started moving and we got home. By the time we got home we had almost 10 inches of snow in our driveway. I wasn’t even expecting it to snow, and we got dumped on!