Snow, Snow, Snow!
It snowed in our home town! Wow, that has never happened to me before; I had a difficult time paying attention in class Wednesday AM. It started snowing around 9:30 Wednesday morning and didn’t stop until class ended at 11. It probably snowed a few inches in that short bit. There were large big flakes, and then it was just a white haze at points when the wind was blowing so hard, and then it would change directions in seconds! Walking home was a bit precarious…I slipped a bit, but did not fall on my bum. 
Let me tell you about our IKEA trip. Well, it’s always a bit of a challenge to get out there (about a 30 minute car drive, longer in the bus). We ended up taking bus route 37 rather than 37A and had to trek across a rather large shopping centre (yes, they actually have those here!) in the snow and very chilly wind as the 37 route didn’t go exactly directly to IKEA. We were very glad we had good-gripping shoes for this round of snow. But I was definitely rethinking how amazing Scotland is and how cool I thought the snow was before. (The snow is of course still quite cool, but definitely much more cool when one is inside, rather than in the midst of it–unless of course one is skiing–but I digress…). So we scraped our coins together and bought two hotdogs for 65p each and tried to get feeling back into our chilled faces. We had a nice meander through the store en route to fulfilling Mission Bookshelf. Unfortunately, Mission Bookshelf failed as the IKEA Staff Commandos charge ?30 for delivery of the bookshelf and since the bookshelf only costs ?29, we figured we had better abort the mission.
On another note, we bought an antique pine table (to use as our desk for the time being) c. 1880, so though Mission Bookshelf failed, we are getting a great pine table and hopefully the neck and back soreness from reading and typing on our laps will vanish!
On yet another note, all my friends are getting married and some are thinking of having children (not the ones getting married now!). There are four girls from home getting married between March and August and I don’t know if I’ll be able to go to any of their weddings. Why don’t they all just get married when it’s chilly and cold there so the flights would be cheaper for me? haha. The marriages are awesome, but when I think of people my age becoming parents it just makes me feel old, grown-up, etc.–all those things I usually don’t feel. It’s a mad world. Please let us know what’s up with you, too!
January 29th, 2004 at 6:01 pm
So for once the weather forecast on Yahoo was right! Has the snow stayed on the ground? Ash, so who all is getting married? Dad
January 29th, 2004 at 9:24 pm
Actually, the snow has stayed on the ground at least for a bit…it’s pretty much melted in the city centre. But the Pentland hills outside the city are all still white. It looks like at least in Edinburgh, the weather will be turning to rain. But the Crocketts have a foot and a half in Banchory! As to who’s getting married: Ashley Toch, Dawn Wedlake (from Westmont, on July 17), Heidi Karges (from Oxford, on July 3), and now Kelly Thoresen (on Aug 7)! I wish I were there…ah well.