Christmas break adventures

Finally sitting down with my coffee and computer in Caleys room in Burlington with a pretty little New England window looking out on to a pretty New England street. I honestly still can't believe we made that flight on Tuesday!! I shall briefly recap the trials and travails we went through to get there. The day began late Monday morning with us waking up to snow and deciding we better leave Durango early so as to make it to Colorado Springs or Pueblo and the airport the next day for our 4pm flight. We ended up leaving town around 1:30, took two hours to get to Pagosa Springs (usually a one hour trip) then sat at the base of Wolf Creek for 3 hours waiting for it to open up, which it never did. We then decided to try going through Chama and Cumbres Pass to Alamosa and up to I-25 from there. Got to Chama about 2 hours later after a horrendous 42 miles in blizzard and slippery roads, tried to head up Cumbres buy got stopped as they were folding down the closed sign due to an avalanche. Had to head back down to Chama, but the wind was so bad we were reduced to going about 10 miles and hour, and stopping every so often do to visibility and also the wipers were freezing up on the windshield. I honestly thought we might be lost in a snow bank. Finally got back to Chama and after trying a few motels, found a room with heat and no bugs or smoke. The next morning we tried making it back to Pagosa but had to turn around due to the extreme possibility of gettng bogged down in the 6-7 inches of snow on the road. Finally we decided to go down through Santa Fe, NM (about 100 miles south of where we were) and then driving up on I-25 through NM. After some snow in Santa Fe and I-25 madness all the way to Las Vegas, we made good time on the flats and go to the airport in time to make the 7pm version of our original flight.
Whew, I'm exhausted just writing about all of it!
The stay with the Botte's was amazing. So much family and good food and beautiful houses and Christmas cheer:)
I'll post a bunch of pics at the end of this entry for some visuals. Lots from my house and some from the Botte Christmas.
Anyway, I'm so happy to finally be in Vermont, and hopefully we'll get to go skiing if the boys ever get off the new wii.
Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
-Megan