More Snow...

And so another weekend bites the dust - where do they go? We decided to go out for dinner on Friday evening to celebrate the end of my fisrt week with a job - any excuse eh? Went to Swiss Chalet which is child friendly with a basic, no frills menu. Had great ribs though - the meat just fell off the bone. Shame they are so messy. We headed straight home afterwards as it was down to -12 at this point with -14 forecast for later that night. As a result of this though we had a glorious day Saturday - clear blue skies and crisp - fabulous. Just how you imagine Canada. Dragged the little darlings over to Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth as we had to buy some bits and bobs (as you do) and Saturday is now the day to do it as I work all week and the shops are shut on Sunday. The Walmart over there is quite upmarket (for a Walmart) and so the whole retail experience is quite bearable. I've heard on the grapevine that Walmart are going to be refurbishing a lot of their stores over here with the aim of making them 'posher'. They could do with startiing in the Sackville store - it's terrible (with a clientele to match - care in the community at it's worst...). We decided to buy ourselves a Gas Barbecue (or gas Grill as they say here) but as we were in the Golf, I had to return later with the Dodge to collect it. I say Barbecue, but they are in fact treated as an outdoor cooker, and come in particularly handy when you have a power outage. We only bought a relatively small (and cheap) one - some of them could be used to cater for the 3rd Armoured Infantry Division they are so big! Anyway, we decided to go small and have a little respect for the Ozone Layer. It has yet to be assembled, I was going to do it on Sunday but it...

Snowed! Started just before Midday and carried on into the evening. By 7pm we had about 20cm (8") . They came and ploughed the drive that evening which meant I could go to work this morning (damn!) and luckily no more fell over night. It was really strange snow though - all dry and powdery - almost like polystyrene! Not good for sledding apparently and the wind was certainly blowing it around. I did have to clear the mound at the end of the drive created by the main snowploughs when they did the road, as well as our footpaths, but that's not a problem. Actually quite enjoy a bit of snow shovelling - though I'm sure the novelty will wear off in time!

I still haven't got my computer at work, so it was a quiet day there. Spent a lot of the day correcting my bosses English. (At his request I might add). He's from Chile, the other two on the team are also from foreign parts - one from Colombia and the other from Turkey. I've been earmarked to look after all the document amendments - I wonder why.....

Anyway, another day passed and another blog entry completed. Hope you are all enjoying them!! I'll post some more pictures soon, but in case you've forgotten what they look like, here's a photo of the twins taken before we left the UK.