It looks like the boys and I will be stuck up here in Susanville until next weekend. ‘J’ was supposed to come up this weekend to celebrate New Year’s with us and we were all going to go home tomorrow or Monday. Well, considering California is flooding due to a major storm, he can’t get up here. I-80 is closed for the next 2 days due to a massive landslide. All other ways up here are either closed becasue of landslides or snow. Many of California’s roadways and highways are closed because of flooding and landslides. Reading the local paper for my hometown, The Union, there is a lot of flooding happening there, too. ‘J’ had to take a detour of about an hour and half to get home from work this morning since the roads were either washed out or blocked by landslides.
Meanwhile, up here in Susanville, we’re getting a mixture of rain and snow. It rained all night and snowed this morning. There’s a little bit of snow on the ground, but because it’s been raining, it’s slushy. Don’t know if we’ll get anymore snow, but rain is predicted for most of this week. Since ‘J’ can’t make it up this weekend and he has to work all week, we’ll be here for an extra week…untile next weekend. But hey…we got plenty of “drinks” to keep us occupied at least for tonight.

Last night my sis-in-law and I had our girl’s night out…while her hubby watched the boys. (BTW, the boys and I have been visiting her since Monday the 26th.) We went to see King Kong and then went out to a late dinner (like at 10:30 in the evening…lol!). After we ate (I had a yummy Phily steak sandwich and french fries) we stopped over at Safeway to get a few New Year’s supplies. Got home just after midnight.

King Kong was an awesome movie. I don’t remember too much about the original, but this new version seems to match what I do remember of it pretty well. The CGI was fantastic! One of the great action scenes was when Kong took on 3 t-rex’s while hanging on to Ann. It was great! Still a very sad movie….what happens when men get greedy and can’t leave nature well enough alone. It was well worth the 3 hours of sitting in a theater.