Adventures in Winter Wonderland

Last night, we went to our friends' house to play Bohnanza. If you haven't heard of it, it's a really fun bean trading card game that we bought on the week-end. Our friends live in the country, so they have a long driveway, and they have nothing to clear it with. Well, after the dumping of snow we've gotten, we were quite nervous driving onto it, but we made it to the house with only getting stuck once, which Jared managed to drive ourselves out of. When we got to the house, we discovered that our friends' car was stuck just off their driveway. I went inside with Kiera while Jared, 2 other guys, and my friend's wife spent an hour trying to push and pull the car out using a tow rope and our car. After an hour, my friend's wife came inside, along with Nyk because he didn't have proper footwear to be out in 3 feet of snow. So then, Jared + the other guy drove to town to get a truck. After another hour (including the 20-minute drive), they finally got the car out! I saw my dreams of playing Bohnanza going down the drain as it was 10:15 p.m. by this time and Jared said he didn't want to stay late because he had to go to work this morning. The guys came inside and Jared said, "Let's play Bohnanza! We're not going home yet after all that." Yay! We put Kiera down to sleep and had fun playing the game. Our evening didn't turn out quite like we had planned, but I think they learned their lesson and they're going to get someone or something to clear their driveway!