Snow Day!!

For all those people who told us that winters in Greater Vancouver are mild and green, guess what? A winter snowfall warning this weekend resulted in 20+ centimetres of snow being dumped on the entire lower mainland! Now granted this is a very rare event for this area, but to us it just felt right. Here it is practically November and we were still looking at green lawns! So now it actually feels like winter to us. Dave even had the day off work because of the poor road conditions (a little bit of an overreaction if you ask this Northern Ontario girl, but when snow hits an area where drivers aren't used to it, the resulting collective panic can be very dangerous). So we took advantage of the pleasant temperatures and spent the day outside. This was Bekah's first time being able to actually play in the snow and she loved it so much that she kept trying to take off her mitts and stuff it in her face. As soon as she realized how cold it was, she wiped her face off and tried to shove her wet litle hands back into her mitts. We pulled out her little sled that she got for Christmas last year and took a walk down the street and to a wooded trail on the other side of our neighbourhood park. It was like walking out of a residential city neighbourhood and right into a winter wonderland. If you've ever seen the Chronicles of Narnia, it immediately reminded me of the woods of Narnia during the winter. The temperatures will be below zero for the next few days so the snow will hang around for a little while, but it will all be gone in a short while. As much as I say I hate Canadian winters with their windchills and blizzards and huge dumps of snow, it just wouldn't be winter for me if I didn't get to see it just once!