A quiet morning and only a skiff of snow on the hills. It did try a few times to snow today but nothing settled. It is very cold though – I think the forecast is still for snow for the next few days and building to a minus 6 with a high of minus 1 on Tuesday! Welcome to winter in the northern hemisphere. The temperatures shouldn’t be a shock – Alex gets into the negatives frequently but this is bone chilling and the wind comes with it.
A local has informed me that less than 30 minutes drive from here is a place that is as cold as Siberia – it has some record. I hope this winter is not a record breaking one!
This afternoon we headed to the local ice skating rink to watch the “cirque de Moscou sur Glace” The Moscow circus on ice! We got there early as there were no fixed seats – this in itself was entertaining, we would have been the 10th people to arrive and wait in the line but by the time to go in we would have been 60th as everyone just ignored the barriers and line and barged in front and past the tape!
A digression – it was only last year that the bus company changed it’s practice and made everyone enter the bus from the front doors as no one queues here! Not sure if I have already told you that! Also they had to install ticket machines with numbers for at busy places – stations, meat/cheese counters because of the chaos!
Anyway just beside us were 3 rows of reserved seats – official “children” were there telling you that you couldn’t sit there and time after time people pushed past and sat down anyway THEN someone else would have to come and be even more official and bossy to get them to move! This would have happened at least 100 times. It was as if the rest of the crowd had completely ignored this prime seating area and left it to those who came in later on….DUH!!!!! At least this kept us amused until the start of the show.
The show was great – very clever and the cast had fantastic costumes. I have got heaps of ideas for the Ice Festival ( if APS has another one) and fantastic ideas for jump rope!
Another interesting thing…those on the Ice Rink committee may be interested…that the pool and the rink were in the same complex, probably sharing the complementary machinery! I have taken some photos as this rink is also used for international ice hockey games as well. Does anyone know anybody into that stuff?
At least there wasn’t a foot of snow by the time we got out but it was bitter. Must be coming tomorrow….
Just watching Australia versus France as I write this, I really am not sure who I want to win. Even Nev is finding his book more interesting than the rugby –NEVER thought that would happen!
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