SNOW SNOW SNOW . . . . . .

IS ANNOYING!!!!!!!! One of the first of the many questions people asked me when they found out I would be overseas over Christmas was "Oh so you're going to have a white Christmas?" "Have you ever seen snow before?". No I had never seen snow until now and guess what? I really couldn't give a rats ass if I never see it again! It is cold, wet and it's only white for a few hours, afterwards it turns grey and gross.

The first dusting of snow that I saw was a little exciting, but once you have worn all those layers, (which you have to pay for and winter clothes are not cheap) and tried to pull your hair out from under your scarf with gloves on, so thick that you can hardly make a fist and trying to balance and melted and refrozen snow and walk at the same time, the stuff gets friggen irritating. The worst part about the snow has to be driving in it. when you break the car just slides, so when you are a good distance away from a stop sign you just take your foot off the accelerator and wait until you slowly stop moving and only break if necessary. Well in heavy snow. It isn't that bad once you get used to it, but it still really isn't a lot of fun.

I was sharing my views on the snow with my host kid one day and he actually made a very good point. I didn't really get to experience the fun and joy that snow brings, like sledding or building snow men or skiing, but to be very honest it's just cold and wet, I don't think I would really be into it anyway. You never know until you try, so I guess I'll never know.

Coming from South Africa anything in single digits in degree Celsius is considered freezing, so when it reached -10 here on one day I honestly thought that I was going to die and perfectly preserved. Only to find that it normally gets as low as single digits in Fahrenheit. Please keep in mind that 32 F is 0 C. So as far as my selfish, cheap skate, warm blooded self goes, I am perfectly happy with the "mild" winter that I experienced. As for my environmentally friendly and concerned self, I am extremely worried and I'm hoping that this was just Mother Nature's way of saying "let's give the nature lover a break".

So overall this is a pretty negative blog, but I can't complain too much, I did take advantage of the fact that I got to see snow for the first and will probably be the last time. I got some good photos and that's all I need. The memories and painfully cold fingers from cleaning snow off my car, and having to heat it up 10 minutes before I went anywhere can stay a thing of my passed.

<------yes that is some pretty deep snow

Don't do this in non-water proof pants, I had a wet (frozen) ass for the rest of the day!

And I have to admit that snow on the beach is pretty cool!