snow snow snow, rain... sun!

Well, we've certainly had a mixed bag of the weather lately.
Two Sundays ago, Aimee and I were stomping through 1 foot of snow and throwing snowballs at each other; while forecasters advised drivers to avoid traveling as plows were struggling to clear snow from main roads.
As they pushed snow from the lanes of highways, they blocked on-ramps with their piles!

So that massive dump has now cleared, and we've been having snow on and off for the last 2 weeks. Yesterday the temperatures finally rose above freezing, allowing the rain to help with moving some of the dirty grey piles from the side of the road.

Todays weather highlight is I had to get out my sunglasses, as it's a sunny 1 degree!

So we've also been up to some other antics. Check out our photos from the link at the top, on Saturday we drove north and cut down our Christmas tree.


The tree farm was called Hockley Alley, it is a few acres of trees in different stages of growth, with tractors towing people to and from their cars, and Clydesdale's pulling people around in a sled. You can even sit by the bonfire and sip eggnog.

Later on Sunday we went ice skating downtown in an open free rink. We just had to hire skates.

Tonight we will be off to the ballet to watch the nutcracker, and then tomorrow is the eastbay Christmas party!

Fun stuff, so lots of relaxing this weekend I think.