More Snow!

Well, we made it up to Northern Ireland, near Ballymena, to visit Marie and Brian on Friday afternoon. It stopped snowing long enough for us to make it safely there and back (last night), but we woke up to more snow this morning! We celebrated Marie's birthday (which was last Friday), Marie and I did a bit of shopping, and Paul did some odd jobs on their house. There is a really good exchange rate when exchanging Euro into Pounds at the moment, and everything is generally cheaper in the North, so I stocked up on non-perishable grocery items. I compared the same items in the same store, and saved 35 Euro by shopping up there. I'll definitely be doing that again!

Marie and Paul

Marie and her little birthday cake

Paul got up early and went to mass this morning, and he called me after it was over to say that the roads were like ice rinks- he went up onto a curb before he even got out of our estate! Luckily there was no injuries and no damage to his van. He got a few groceries on his way home, stopped to pick up some McDonald's pancakes for me, then I taught him how to make a snowman when he got home! He didn't think rolling the snow into a ball on the ground actually worked. While we were out in the snow, he said "I'm kind of getting sick of this snow!" We've only had snow for about a week here! He should go to MN for a few weeks in January! The sun came out and most of it has melted now. There's more in the forecast for the week ahead though.

Paul making the snowman's head

Me and our rather sad looking snowman- he does have really small branches for arms, but we didn't have any coal or carrots for his face

A self-portrait in our backyard.