Inconvenient Ice.

We have made it back to Bismarck. It's been another bad weather, bad road adventure but we are grateful to be safe and sound in a warm home. My parents drove the kids and I four hours yesterday thru decent roads and Greg drove thru some crazy ice rain to meet us. We had planned on staying in Moorhead with Greg's grandma 'til Sunday but it's supposed to get horridly cold so we took our window of decent weather and made it back today. And on the small road near Greg's parents, we saw four beautiful deer welcoming us home. They looked cold. 

We had to deal with icy roads today, saw a handful of vehicles in the ditch and various highway patrol fixing the messes. The worst and scariest was seeing a truck pulling a camper spin out and go toppling into the ditch about 50 yards in front of us. Both kids asleep in the back seat stayed asleep thru it all. Grateful for wonderful visibility, great driver, good van and God in control. 

Below you can somewhat see a semi in the ditch jackknifed: cab facing north, its trailer facing east. Yikes. Also we are in ice fishing territory again...little shacks on a sea of white. And the place where it's so cold the cows huddle together. 

Glad to be inside while it gets crazy cold! However I am unhappy about road conditions being such a major part of our lives again. The newest apps on my phone are the 511 MN and ND department of transportation. All for road condition info. Lame. 

-Heather