Good evening dear readers! What an eventful couple of weeks! Things have been BUSY!

First, the "Big Freeze of 2009" had water pipes frozen and busted all over.

We were affected too... Pipes froze after day 3, friend came over and thawed them, only to discover we had numerous breaks in the lines... Uggg

7 days without water from the time of freeze until the broken pipes were fixed.

There was some fun from it though (see pics on my Facebook of our fun!

We spent HOURS in the indoor heated swimming pool and hot tub. Pretty amazing. Snow on the ground, broken pipes at home & we were swimming! How awesome

It was a new experience for me~ 42 years and I never went swimming when it was snowing...

The hotel was a wonderful luxery. We all enjoyed it A LOT!!

Especially after we had busted our tails to make the money to stay there! A friend, who has some health problems, had their car stuck in what he called an igloo from the snow plows piling snow where his parked car sat.

So the girls and I set out to free his car. 3 snow shovels and some serious work did it.

And that is how our room was paid for. Like I told our friend... Never underestimate the power of a woman who wants a HOT shower!

By the way~ I took a 30 minute HOT shower there and NEVER ran out of hot water! It was awesome!

We are back home, working on the disaster of a week of no running water created...