Snow Days.

The past few days we've had loads of snow. On Wednesday 20cm fell and now there's at least a foot of snow to walk through if you wanna get the bus anywhere. It's pretty treacherous! Apparently this is the whitest Christmas for years in Vancouver. The last officially white Christmas was in 1998. And we were told it never snowed in the city...

Anyway, I'll start at the beginning. On Tuesday I bought some mulling spices from my work and some wine and we attempted making some mulled wine on Tuesday night.

Everything you need to mull yourself festive

The mulling process

Debbie mulling

Debbie checking the mulling had been carried out correctly (this is traditionally done with a gingerbread bear)

Me double-checking

Our festive living room

Then on Wednesday me and Debbie went for an adventure in the snow.

A depth scale with my feet

I'm so happy with the snow

Me taking a picture of Debbie taking a picture in the snow

Me running in the snow (I think I'm part-husky)

Debbie in the snow


Debbie (for sale) in our snowy street

Tiny Debbie being excited from a distance

Everything loses it's shape in the snow

A weird coloured thing depot near our house

Icicles!

The tiny path we had to walk along through the snow

My first Canadian McDonalds (was delicious)

A tree I made from wire on my day off

Granville Street in the snow

So that's how snowy it is! I was meant to work on Monday but I got a call just when I was on the bus saying I didn't need to go in and that I was meant to stay inside and warm but since I was already outside and cold I went downtown to get some final things for Christmas. Then the Rimmer's family member Dolphin came and met me and we went to dinner at his Grans. It was his dad's birthday so I pretty much crashed a family event and I'm not sure how many people were expecting me because I got asked how I knew Dolphin (kinda sounded like they thought I was his new girlfriend or something) but I had an awesome meal and was invited for Christmas if my plans (of cooking and eating and drinking lots) fell through. After that Dolphin and I went to Granville Island to an open mic night at Backstage. Some dude was playing some kinda crazy fingering guitar. Was pretty impressive. Then I went home and had work today. I'm quite excited to be off work for a week! Since I got a job it seems I have so much stuff to do in such a little time. I think the fact that it takes upto an hour to get there totally makes a difference. It's gonna be good to clear the backlog of stuff I want to do and get doing some fun stuff again! I wanna go to Main Street and look at all the cool shops Debbie keeps talking about.

Anyway, think that's pretty much it. Tomorrow we're going to go and buy all the rest of the food for Thursday and then I'm gonna stay inside for as long as possible!