No snow. Not even ice. We were in a warning zone, which is an upgraded position from a watch zone. Which means it is pretty likely.
So either the snowplows came and got rid of every trace of frozen precipitation before we woke up... or nothing happened. It has to be frustrating to be a meteorologist in Atlanta lately. You have all this expensive equipment, coupled with years of training and experience. And ultimately, people who are out there in the weather probably know more about what's going on than you do.
Fortunately, spring is on the way. Meteorologists can have joy in this, because we won't be guessing anymore about where that line is that the temperature will be below freezing. It'll be warmer everywhere! But the other reason is that they have the training and equipment to know exactly where these terrible spring storms pop up, how fast they are moving, and where they are going. It's a moment of redemption for weather forecasters, because we trust them with our lives at that point, all of us glued collectively to our television sets and computers.
But not this morning. No, we had all that turned off. Because this morning, we went to ballet. But there wasn't any ballet this morning. We had an error on the calendar, and mistakenly headed out to the Mary Poppins Ballet Camp. Which is next week.
Oops. So that's how Madison came to spend the day at work with Daddy. We were doing a bit with the Marriage Conference, and fortunately there was some free food left over for both of us. Daddy got the music and the special effects for tomorrow set up. YES, there are special effects! Queen Elsa will wave her arms and POOF! There will be a geyser of blue steam shooting up from behind a stone wall we've had set up from week one. It should be impressive. Also impressive: we got the Olaf costume this afternoon. It is HUGE. Madison put it on, and of course her head barely peeks out the top of the midsection.
It looks pretty funny! She had fun with some of the other kids stranded there, while meanwhile outside the weather was warming up. It actually got around forty degrees today, which is downright balmy when you consider what we've been through the last week or so.
We got home later, and had some homemade pizza for dinner - and after that, had just enough time to watch the next movie in our Chinese New Year festival: "Mulan II."
Madison didn't watch these last year, so it's almost as if she's watching them for the first time in some ways. She's forgotten a lot of the parts of these movies, so it's been fun rewatching them. Of course, in this movie you want to strangle Mushu. And clobber the ancestors a bit too. But the other portions of the movie are pretty fun, and make for an enjoyable experience. Madison laughed a lot throughout, and is suddenly on a Mulan kick, wanting that costume again. We've always liked "Mulan." It is actually the first Disney movie that Mommy and Daddy went to see in the theater together. That was strangely prophetic! We honestly had no idea whatsoever when seeing that movie that we ourselves would in fact be trekking all the way over to China to meet Madison, pretty much exactly ten years later. We had just started dating - and could you imagine, "Okay, picture this: you just met this girl, but in ten years you'll be married and going to China to adopt a little girl."
The movie came out on June 10th, 1998. We didn't see it on opening day, but maybe a week later. Which puts us pretty close to being exactly ten years later. We went to China to meet Madison in June of 2008, including a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland.
I actually hadn't really thought of this before, so it's kind of a neat little trivia moment there!
So either the snowplows came and got rid of every trace of frozen precipitation before we woke up... or nothing happened. It has to be frustrating to be a meteorologist in Atlanta lately. You have all this expensive equipment, coupled with years of training and experience. And ultimately, people who are out there in the weather probably know more about what's going on than you do.
Fortunately, spring is on the way. Meteorologists can have joy in this, because we won't be guessing anymore about where that line is that the temperature will be below freezing. It'll be warmer everywhere! But the other reason is that they have the training and equipment to know exactly where these terrible spring storms pop up, how fast they are moving, and where they are going. It's a moment of redemption for weather forecasters, because we trust them with our lives at that point, all of us glued collectively to our television sets and computers.
But not this morning. No, we had all that turned off. Because this morning, we went to ballet. But there wasn't any ballet this morning. We had an error on the calendar, and mistakenly headed out to the Mary Poppins Ballet Camp. Which is next week.
Oops. So that's how Madison came to spend the day at work with Daddy. We were doing a bit with the Marriage Conference, and fortunately there was some free food left over for both of us. Daddy got the music and the special effects for tomorrow set up. YES, there are special effects! Queen Elsa will wave her arms and POOF! There will be a geyser of blue steam shooting up from behind a stone wall we've had set up from week one. It should be impressive. Also impressive: we got the Olaf costume this afternoon. It is HUGE. Madison put it on, and of course her head barely peeks out the top of the midsection.
It looks pretty funny! She had fun with some of the other kids stranded there, while meanwhile outside the weather was warming up. It actually got around forty degrees today, which is downright balmy when you consider what we've been through the last week or so.
We got home later, and had some homemade pizza for dinner - and after that, had just enough time to watch the next movie in our Chinese New Year festival: "Mulan II."
Madison didn't watch these last year, so it's almost as if she's watching them for the first time in some ways. She's forgotten a lot of the parts of these movies, so it's been fun rewatching them. Of course, in this movie you want to strangle Mushu. And clobber the ancestors a bit too. But the other portions of the movie are pretty fun, and make for an enjoyable experience. Madison laughed a lot throughout, and is suddenly on a Mulan kick, wanting that costume again. We've always liked "Mulan." It is actually the first Disney movie that Mommy and Daddy went to see in the theater together. That was strangely prophetic! We honestly had no idea whatsoever when seeing that movie that we ourselves would in fact be trekking all the way over to China to meet Madison, pretty much exactly ten years later. We had just started dating - and could you imagine, "Okay, picture this: you just met this girl, but in ten years you'll be married and going to China to adopt a little girl."
The movie came out on June 10th, 1998. We didn't see it on opening day, but maybe a week later. Which puts us pretty close to being exactly ten years later. We went to China to meet Madison in June of 2008, including a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland.
I actually hadn't really thought of this before, so it's kind of a neat little trivia moment there!
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