It's a Blizzard and an Anchovie

A short while ago, when I was in college, I lived in the snow. 

I have my opinions about how beautiful it is when it's falling, how amazing it is to see everything covered in white fluffy stuff, and how much more appropriate it is to have a fire in the fireplace when it's snowing outside. 

 I also have my opinions on how horrible it is to walk around in 3 day-old snow, how ugly the snow looks after cars have driven through it a few times, and how you can't get back the non-snow look until the temperature decides that it's Spring.

With that said, snow really is amazing and we were looking forward to the kids first snow falling experience.  Don't think we deprive our children of the fun in life.  They have been to snow. 

But they haven't seen snow fall from the sky. 

The snow began to fall on Sunday morning.  It didn't stop snowing until early Monday morning. 

The light snow turned into crazy, falling in every direction, snow. 

 It was awesome!

Tucked safe on the second story of Carmine's we watched the snow race by the windows in an extremely horizontal fashion. It wasn't like anything I had ever seen before. 

 I liked it and I couldn't stop taking pictures of it.

Carmine's is a family style Italian Restaurant.

It's menu isn't intimidating.  It's a huge menu mounted to the wall.  But it's anything but intimidating.

It's pasta served in different shapes and sizes.

It's good food and it's a great place for a large crowd.

Have a mentioned how difficult it can be navigating the street with eight people?

Well, it is. 

At some point you just hope that the kids know what your jacket and hat look like and that they are following the right people to the next destination.

Served with our salad were anchovies.

Again, we don't deprive our children in the fun food department either. 

 But I've never served them anchovies.

Eight people ate the calamari, but only five people ate the anchovies.

For dessert we decided on the "Titanic."

Five scoops of ice cream shaped to look like the Titanic.

Um, wow.

Eight people inhaled the dessert.

While we ate, the snow was coming down.

We decided that because they were telling people to stay off the streets that we should go home too.

When it snows in New York you are usually asked not to take out the trash until after the storm passes.

I assume this trash had already been placed at the curb before it started snowing.

However, consider what this trash looked like in twelve hours with two feet of snow on top of it?

We made it back to the apartment to enjoy some very powdery snow.

Very magical and cold.

When you bring a dog on vacation with you, you must be prepared for all types of weather. 

This includes the sixth largest snow fall in New York City's history.

Dogs need to be walked and "pottied."

This proved to be very difficult on Sunday night.

Alec was by far the most willing to take the dog out.

We went out while the blizzard was in what they call "white out conditions."

This is Alec and Dutch only a few feet away.

This, too, is a picture of Alec and Dutch only a few more feet away.

It was really crazy!  I couldn't see him and he couldn't see me.

Bring it on!

This is the face of a very cold and happy boy who just experienced a real blizzard.

This is a dog wearing a raincoat.  He's not happy at all about his first blizzard or the raincoat.