Snowed In  -  Apr 12th, 2011 8:34pm

Was fortunate enough to get snowed in this last weekend.  Given that its April and I live in Phoenix this is somewhat of a miracle...

Tara and I were invited a few weeks back by her friends Gabe and Amy to come up to Gabe's family cabin.  I'm still not exactly sure where it was due to a combination of Four Loko and Oreos, but its somewhere between Strawberry and Flagstaff a few hours west of Payson.

After escaping town on Friday afternoon - we all met up in Payson and grabbed dinner at Cardo's.  This is the kind of place that could only exist in a small town.  While we consumed pizza and beer, everyone in town took their turn singing or playing tambourine with the local guitarista on a makeshift stage.  Kind of like communal karaoke which we escaped from just in time to beat the snow up to the cabin.

The cabin itself was really nice.  A 3 story affair, it was more like a home complete with cozy couches, a stocked fridge, a big kitchen, and even a pool table downstairs.  This wasn't roughing it by any means.  We spent the first night drinking, snacking and poking fun at one of my new favorite movies - Superman 2.  Kneel before Zod!

When we'd had enough of that we all crashed out.  While we slept, 2 things occurred. First, the heater died.  Second, it started to snow.  We all woke up the next morning in a frozen house to a frozen world.  Tara and I crawled out of bed to the window sill like kids on a white Christmas morning and watched the snow pile up.  I had nearly forgotten how quiet the world gets when it snows like that.

The rest of the weekend was filled with all sorts of silliness. Snow shoveling, bad beer, good wine, rock band, pictionary, oatmeal cream pie cookies, and the eventual repair of the heater after it became so cold that fixing it was our only good option.  Thank you Amy and Gabe for letting us come up and play in the snow with you, and thank you Tara for being so much fun to get snowed in with.