Winter Wonderland... In Charlotte?

Joe and I don't live under a rock or anything. We usually stay up-to-date on the weather, what the week will be like temperature wise, what days we might get rain, etc. This last weekend we were a bit out of touch. Neither of us knew there was snow on the way. Saturday night we saw it start to snow in big flakes. Didn't think much about it, this wasn't our first rodeo with snow. We decided to stick with our plans and drive to a sushi restaurant for dinner. You could probably say we're Groupon-addicts, we wanted to burn a Groupon at a local sushi place. Anyways, on the road we noticed the snow start to come down harder and faster and our car started to skid a tiny bit. Now, in normal situations we would feel comfortable going a little bit farther in this weather, but the fact that most people who live in Charlotte don't know how to drive in snow compiled with the fact that there were A LOT of cars on the road made us feel uneasy.

Long story (somewhat) short, we turned around and headed back towards home. Luckily there was a pizza place really close to our house that we have been wanting to try. Turns out the place was packed, but we got a seat and enjoyed some really yummy pizza. It was really neat to see the snow covering the house and lawn. We saw multiple people in the neighborhood outside throwing snowballs (well we never saw them actually throwing the snowballs, but we knew their intentions) and building snowmen. Seriously, you'd think these people had never seen snow before... well to be honest many of them probably haven't! Guess our Groupon will have to wait for another day.