My snow day started off with a short walk over to Longfellow's Coffee for breakfast. Getting a chance to drink a coffee and read a book is an extreme luxury for me during the school year and I was giddy with excitement at getting to start a new book about the history of Yosemite while enjoying some delicious coffee. Longfellow's is a great coffee shop, housed in the Lamplighter brewery. It's a great place for relaxing and watching the snow fall outside.
After lounging around the house, and listening to the crazy winds, I decided a second coffee was necessary and headed over to 1369 Coffee.
I think everyone was "working from home" from 1369 but I was able to get a seat and enjoy reading more of my book (really, this is a major luxury~ I'm not sure when the next time is that my schedule will allow me to read...sad but true.) Honestly, 1369 gets mad props because I think in the nine years we've lived here it has only been closed twice (Hurricane Sandy and the day of the massive manhunt after the Marathon bombing.) As I was out and about I noticed that the streets didn't look great, although it didn't seem like we had gotten that much snow. This made me worry about weather or not we would have school on Friday, but I was pleasantly surprised when shortly thereafter I got the magic call! Our focus shifted from digging out our cars, to planning a fun night of #snoWin!
We decided to head over to Kendall Square to enjoy State Park. We wanted to see what the world looked like (gosh, I guess we did get a ton of snow...it didn't look this bad when I went to 1369) and because we haven't been to State Park in a long time. You can't go wrong with their $11 burger and salad and their cocktails are always spot on (secret tip~ order the Old Cuban which is no longer on their menu...you will thank me!)
Added bonus, pinball! I scored over a billion points and won an extra game! It was so fun getting to go out and enjoy the city!
On the walk home the winds were really picking up.
We watched as a Christmas tree blew down the street, only to find ours half way down our street when we got home. Nothing burying it in snow couldn't handle.
We also had a fun situation with our trash (it hadn't gone out in almost two weeks and we couldn't afford to miss another week so JO and I took it out) where we had to put a ton of snow on the tops of the barrels to keep them from blowing up and letting a trash cyclone loose on the street. (side note- we were way too excited when the trash was collected the next morning making it clear that we are nearing forty!)
Snowy nights are always special and this one was no different.
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