I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

For the first time in a decade Vancouverites could well be waking up to a White Christmas. Not the usual I'm Dreaming of a Wet Christmas.

What makes this weather all the more interesting was that the temperatures this fall were pretty average, and it was fairly dry. But in the past couple of weeks, the city, and the entire country have fallen into a deep freeze. Which is fine for the rest of Canada, but not for us. We aren't used to -15 degree weather, or whatever the heck the windchill has been. When you are born in or move to Vancouver you sign on the dotted line for sea breezy summers and mild winters. I don't recall signing on for sub zero temperatures and this white stuff. That's what the mountain views are for!

Needless to say it's made the first couple days of my Christmas vacation interesting. We did most of our shopping for Christmas dinner on Saturday because the forecast said it would snow again on Sunday.

The Superstore is trying at the best of times. But dealing with it the Saturday before Christmas, oh my god! After that torture we went into Richmond to pick up a couple of presents for Tiki and Welly, and a few other items. Later that night we bundled up and walked to our local sports bar to watch the hockey game. I had five layers on, but nothing is a match for the biting Pacific breeze. It eats through you, straight to the bone. We left the pub to find it had started snowing again, and was a cold like no cold in Vancouver before.

We had planned on walking to the video store to rent a film, but it was too damn cold. We considered driving, but we would be there and back by the time the car heated up. So we trudged home from the bar and watched one of our own movies.

Yesterday we battled the roads and the crazy Vancouver drivers who shouldn't be on the road on a dry, sunny day, and finished our Christmas dinner shopping. Last night we began to set up the apartment for our Christmas Eve dinner.

Now all we have to do is head into Steveston tomorrow and pick up our turkey. Oh, and then prepare a turkey dinner for eleven... for the first time ever...