Historical Second Snow Day

The kids were thrilled to pieces last night when they learned they were in for another snow day today.  Snow days for the Chicago public school system are few and far between (before yesterday, it hadn't happened in more than a decade), and even more unheard of for Oak Park school districts 97 and 200.  This is the first time in the history of the Oak Park schools that there have been back-to-back snow days.  Today's day off seemed to be related more to the overnight temperatures plummeting to -20 or lower, and the fact that not everyone's been able to dig out.  Thanks to Baird's hard work, we were able to get around fairly easily by late afternoon yesterday.  Venturing out today certainly wasn't very dramatic for us.  Clearly, tho, there were those who weren't so fortunate, like the poor owner of this car on Highland between Fillmore and Harvard:

Today became a "do your own thing" day at our house.  Baird was up early and went to work.  He said he had no problems getting there - 290 and 294 were in great shape.  Kelsey quite literally slept the morning away, finally coming to life a little after 1 this afternoon.  Erin, ever the early bird, was up by 8:00, not wanting to miss a moment of the treasured day off.  "When I look back on this," she said, "I want to be able to talk about how much fun I had in the snow.  I don't want it to be, like, 'yeah, I spent the two snow days sleeping and watching TV.'  How lame would that be?!"  I couldn't agree more!  Since the roads were passable, Erin and her neighborhood friends connected with those north of the highway and went sledding at Ridgeland Common.

Drew and his friends met up at Barrie Park for some football...

...some hot chocolate...

...and some king of the mountain.

This weekend-in-the-middle-of-the-week has lasted just long enough to be fun.  Tomorrow, it's back to school for all of half a day, then it's Super Bowl weekend.  Oh, and we might get some more snow.  I have no idea where we're going to put it!