The snow was great fun, it has now melted away, but I'm sure it will be back soon. I'm almost ready for Christmas, just need to get a few more things and am waiting for Vincent to cut down the tree.
I went to Walmart as I had to buy the girls snow boots, the gum boots were definitely not going to cut it. The boots were cheap $25 to $35 here in Oz would have easily paid $60. Many kind people have given us snow clothes so we will be right for clothes. There is a small snow park on the island which has chairlifts and gives ski lessons for the kids. I'm looking forward to this. Someone told me you can hire all the ski gear for the whole day for - wait for it--$6-- LOL!!!
Yesterday the temp went back up to +7 degrees C, tomorrow it is going down to -5 degrees C. The weather is a real yo yo here.
I was going to up load a video of our first snow experience but I did something stupid (blue folder stupid) and accidentally deleted all of our video footage taken thus far. Yes, I still cringe when I think about it. Vincent is trying to recover it but no luck yet.
I was just saying to ,Vincent, that I am finally getting use to driving over here in the 'take everything you've ever known about driving and flip it over upside down' world. It's taken 2 months but by George I think I've got it. Both, Vincent, and I have to do a driving test within 3 months of being here. Can't wait for that one!
The breakthrough came last night I had been invited to a bridal shower and they don't start things like that here until really late like 8pm. So I was a bit nervous about driving into town by myself in the dark (the rural roads are not well lit). Anyway, everything was fine - thanks be to God. So I feel quite confident now and even drove all the kids into town and we went to 'Dollarama' my favourite store. But having said all that now it has snowed I'm basically back to square one because I'm not driving in that!!
Even with the snow tires which Vincent quickly got after we had a car ice skating on the road experience, and saw some other poor souls in the side ditch of the road (a tow truck was about to pull them out and they seemed fine). No wonder the car insurance is so expensive here! Then there are the snow ploughs. Huge mechanical monsters speeding straight for you, they appear out of nowhere in copious amounts when it starts snowing, but you're very glad when one has been in front of you and cleared the way!
So, we have now found that once all the snow has been dumped, and the ploughs have cleared it off the road. Driving conditions aren't that bad. We just have to dodge the snow storms :D
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