Usually when Evan and I go to Victoria, we can expect weather that's as nice as Edmonton's (in the summer), or nicer (in the winter). While the temperature on this trip was nicer, it was still colder than average for Victoria. And to make it even more fun for the Islanders, it snowed....A LOT!
In fact, we spent a lot of our first days just keeping up with shovelling the long driveway. Of course, Evan always had to help us out.
However amidst all the snow and chaos, there was a silver lining. On Sunday evening, after shovelling all day, my parents' neighbours Jennifer and Jeff brought out some tobagganing tubes for their 2 year old son Jonas and Evan to slide down the long road leading to my parents' home. It wasn't very steep. In fact, we had to kick the tubes down the hill to help the kids makes it to the bottom. We spent a good part of the night pushing the kids down the hill, and riding down mother and son together.
While the boys played in the snow that Sunday evening, the three houses of neighbours gathered and visited over wine, champagne and freshly baked cookies. It was one of the coolest nights I have had in a while.
Stay tuned for Part 3 - Evan's visit to Santa Claus.
1 comment:
I'm jealous! It was way too cold to do much of anything outside here. Bundle up, run to the car, run inside. Repeat. Bet your dad is glad he took his Albertan snow shovels with him!
(completely off topic, but my comment word verification is "lutasine" which sounds like a vitamin.)
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