Hagerstown Discovery Station and snow!!!

The shop/kitchen at Hagerstown Discovery Station

I tried to blog from my phone, it was a dismal failure. So get a cup of tea and sit back and let me fill you in on the last week...

Friday, hubby has a meeting at Hagerstown, so the kids and I spent the morning at Hagerstown Discovery Station, which had good bits and not so good bits. The good bits seemed to be the simpler exhibits, like sitting in an aeroplane, digging for dinosaur skeletons in sand, and an entire shop/ kitchen. The bad bits were where someone had obviously donated a whole collection of precious stuff to the museum, and it was all interesting, but not kid friendly - like a bookshelf of train books. Or a rock collection you could only look at. Or a model of the titanic. (Imagine, trying not to explain that one to a nearly three year old and a 6.5 yr old - who can read...)
Then, we drove through the edge of a snowstorm to McHenry, rather nervously, as we hadn't realised the storm arrival time had been brought forward to Friday afternoon instead of evening. I think we got in at the last possible moment our 2-wheel drive could make it up the hill to the townhouse. Then it really started snowing!!!

Driving in low visibility, on a road that was already beginning to get covered, past a snow plough (with a second ahead). As soon as the storm started, the snow ploughs deploy, they all have their own sections of the road to look after, and they drive up and down and up and down all night trying to keep the roads clear.

Beautiful view, but we didn't stop to enjoy...We saw it all better on the way home.