oh the weather outside is frightful, let it snow let it snow let it snow

We got up on saturday morning to find it lightly snowing in the city!! It snowed off and on all weekend varying in intensity. Saturday night and sunday morning there was quite a thick blanket of snow over everything, but by sunday afternoon the snow had started mixing with rain so it all became a sludgy mess. Today you wouldn't have thought anything had happened its been raining today (big surprise) but its alot warmer we actually made in into double figures, we were lucky to get to 1 degree over the weekend. Apparently it doesn't usually get that cold here and snowing in the city is rare.

On sunday we had our first driving in the snow adventure. As scott was off to Seattle today he wanted to go to point roberts border crossing and re do our visa waivers as our last ones had run out. When you cross the border to the states as a foreigner you have to pay $6 and have your fingerprints done and a photo taken for there records they put a little green piece of paper in your passport and for the next 3 months its easier to cross the border. Ours had just expired and Scott didn't want to be mucking around at the major border at night, so we told them we were going into point roberts to buy nz wine from the supermarket there as they have a better selection. We didn't realise you are meant to pay duties bring alcohol over the border but the canadian border guard was really nice and let us off.

Because we live in quite a high traffic area both cars and pedestrian the snow was packed down a little in our area. Once we got out in suburbia it was a different story, there were some side streets that didn't look like they had been driven down they looked like postcards, it was absolutely gorgeous. The snow just made everything look so beautiful and really christmasy

Catch you guys later.

love Monique and Scott