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Snow in New York City -- 12/07/09 |
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Nancy and I went down to New York City on Saturday to visit grandsons Sam and Milo (oh, yeah, and also to visit their parents *grin*). Naturally, Nancy had to do some baking the night before...
We had a great time visiting with Adam and Leah and the boys. Nancy was surprised at Sam's math skills. He is in first grade and is studying arithmetic in school but what impressed Nancy was his grasp not just of adding and subtracting, but also his understanding of things such as negative numbers (something that apparently some kids are still struggling with in middle school).
We had lunch, played with the boys, caught up on events and activities... and then, while Milo was taking his afternoon nap, Nancy and I headed off to the Museum of Natural History with Adam and Sammy...
Night comes so early at this time of year. When we finally left the museum around 4:30 it was already night... And it was snowing!
All of the kids were delighted! Back in Rhode Island the forecast had called for some snow in the evening, perhaps a couple of inches worth... but that was in the Providence area. I had not expected much where we live along the coast (the ocean keeping us a few degrees cooler in summer and warmer in winter) and the weather had been so mild in recent weeks that winter weather seemed to be far off -- but there it was -- the rain had changed to snow. It took us ten or fifteen minutes to snag a taxi (besides the weather, it was also apparently shift change time for the taxi drivers and at least half the cabs that passed us had their "off duty" signs turned on -- and the rest already had passengers) but eventually Adam's practiced New York skills managed to flag down an off duty driver who agreed to drive us. (Nancy & I had come on a bus chartered by our town's parks & recreation dept. and our pickup point was Madison Ave at East 45th Street -- the museum faces the west side of Central Park at 81st Street -- not quite two and a half miles away and there was a lot of wet snow coming down.) When we finally got back to Rhode Island we found a couple of inches of wet snow on my car -- snow on lawns and trees and such -- while roads were mostly just wet with some slush but no real accumulation. Still, it was a small hint that winter is on its way.
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