The Rankin Zoo

Coral and I went to the Farmers Market last weekend (shocker) and Coral enjoyed climbing on the mounts of snow.

From 2010-02-13

This morning we went over to Wolf Trap National Park (did you know it was a National Park?) and did some sledding. They have a hill there that’s a lot like Mount Reston (only about 4 of you will have any idea what that means) but without the stream at the bottom. I have a few more videos but here are two of Coral and I going down the hill.

And here’s the second video…

It snowed last weekend, a lot! I think the official total at Dulles Airport was 32″ – I measured more like 24-25″ in our yard. Then, it snowed again on Wednesday. It’s hard to say how much it snowed because there was already a bunch of snow on the ground and it was really windy.

I decided to walk to work that day and make a little movie at the same time. Much like the last snow movie, this one isn’t that exciting (especially if you lived through the snow storm in the first place) but might be interesting to look at in 10 years (or this summer).

Let’s see if this works…

This should be a live video feed from my office window in Falls Church.

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It’s snowing right now but this video is from the weekend, after our last snow. We took the kids over to this small hill by our house and did some sledding. In this one, the girls are going down together. There are a few interesting things to note.

First of all, they quickly go off course and B worries that they will end up in the street. I’m trying to prevent that but also get good footage. It works out okay.

The whole way down PJ seems to be watching me, which is funny.

When they really get going off course the ride gets a little bumpy and they almost tip over. At that point you can see that Coral has a tight grip around PJ with one hand and she has jammed her other hand (gloveless at that point) into the snow to slow them down. What a good big sister!

Oh, and of course at the end PJ thinks it was a ton of fun.

Last weekend is snowed a lot. It was crazy and fun. We still have a bunch of snow around but it’s getting crusty and yucky.

My cool underwater camera also works in cold, snowy weather so I got some footage of the storm – during and after. I didn’t put a lot of planning into this footage so I’ve created two compilation videos. One is long and boring and the other is short and boring (the same footage as the long and boring video – just less of it). Either way, if you weren’t around for the storm it might be interesting for about 30 seconds – and in 10 years both videos will be fascinating I’m sure.

Long and boring:

Short and boring: