Sorta' snowshoeing

So i am too lazy to get up and get the camera, so after this post-sometime next week, i will upload all the photos and either post them, or email them :)
this weekend Tony took me to see Mame for Valentine's day ( early-we have to work all next weekend.) It was almost exactly the same as the book Auntie Mame, but with singing.. I loved it!! and the theater that it was in was gorgeous!!! it has been around since 1926 and the inside is decorated in asian inspired decor. I won't go into the story, but if you were around in the 50's the book was also made into a movie- which i can not wait to see now that i see how the musical mirrored the book so well..
anyway we were supposed to meet a friend who was at the ballet, but since we didn't hear from her, we decided to call it a night after the show. We had rented snowshoes and wanted to get up early to go.
The original place that we planned on going was unaccessible due to a recent avalanche, and our second choice was currently also unaccessible due to planned avalanching- getting rid of TONS of snow to avoid one.
So we decided to go to the Olympic Pennisula National park instead. i read the website that is updated often and since we have a parks pass off we went.
We got there about 4:30 and since it would be dark soon, got a hotel and got to bed early.
Early this morning we got up around 6 and got ready to go. Since a friend had told us about Dungenese Spit...see info below...we added it in our itinerary

"Dungeness Spit is the longest natural sand spit in the United States. Extending 5 miles into the Strait of Juan De Fuca, Dungeness Spit has grown about 15 feet per year for the past 120 years."

So we got out there by 10, but it was still high tide, so we had to walk carefully on the rocks so we didn't fall in :)
We got almost to the end and realized that we had been hiking for almost 2 hours and we wanted to get to the mountains before dark so we could snowshoe.
Once we got to the visitors center in the national park, we spoke with a very helpful guide who told us that most of the roads were closed due to recent hurricanes and she showed us pictures of the roads that were ruined. They looked like someone had taken a giant bite outta the road, all the way through! She did tell us that there was one road open with prime snowshoeing, but we would have to drive a bit more.
So we drove, and realized that the road was a one lane road with no snow insite ( even though she told us there would be a lot of snow once we got to 6000 feet) we made it up to about 2500 feet and when we didn't see much snow, and the road was getting thinner and thinner, we turned around..
Mom, you should be proud of me, because you know that normally i would just go on up anyway-like when tony and i went to crater lake and took that crazy road in oregon, or the one lane indian jones lanes in hawaii and ireland.
but i decided to play it safe and tony agreed and we turned and headed home.
At least we got some hiking in. On the way back home, we were planning on following the pennisula all the way around, but since most roads were closed we went back the way we came in, but not before stopping at a winery!!! The one that makes working girl wines.. Tony tasted and i had a few sips- i was driving after all :)
we bought some wine for when we have visitors-if it lasts.
then caught the ferry and just got back into our place.
But fear not!!! i have already found out the roads are open again and tomorrow Tony and i will try our hand, er foot at snowshoeing!!!
More to come...but i promise to be safe.