Snow!

Ok so first to explain why this is so exciting to me. I come from Cape Town where the extent of cold is blissfully nothing to brag about.

We Capetonians hate the cold and as soon as the temperatures drop below 20 C (68 F) we go into hibernation mode and don’t come out for much. Our days are shorter and our weekends quieter. The cocktail on the beach are substituted for red wine by the fire and this generally occurs in our own houses because God forbid we get wet walking to the car.

So now I find myself in Alabama, I was told it doesn’t’ get cold here – they lied! It is FREEZING, and I mean literally – there are tiny thing slivers of ice falling from the sky! OK it has only happened like three times but still this is not what I’m used to.

But all things aside, I love the snow! Besides the freezing coldness, I think there is nothing more beautiful that snow on the ground, treetops and roves of houses. It makes everything look clean and it glistens (yes you know how I love shiny things).

Maybe it’s the sense of reminiscing – it makes me think of childhood when the first sighting of snow on the Ceres mountains meant dad would pack the whole family in the car and together with the rest of the Cape Town plebs, we would embark on the journey all wrapped up with flasks of hot chocolate in hand. Ok granted when we got there we were faced with muddy slush because of the droves of people who got there before us but that’s beside the point.

The point is I still hate the cold but I love the snow. Click here to see pics.