Let is Snow!

Last weekend we didn’t get to do too much because of the biggest snow storm in 20 years. The storm was a front from Russia and pretty much lasted the entire week. Of course the British aren’t used to this sort of snow and ran out of “grit” (dirt) and had to order tons of table salt to put down on the roads.

Here are some pictures:

This is a crappy job; they are shoveling the grocery store parking lot.

I don't know what someone was doing here, but it is funny looking.

Making a snowman.


The kids are trying to "sledge" down this little hill. There is a bigger hill in town, but it was muddy from everyone sledging on it all day.

St. Mary's Church:

We did venture out to the biggest Saturday market in England. The GPS took us down some narrow road. I don’t know how you would fit two cars down it; luckily we didn’t have to find out. The one road was so iced over that it took several tries for us to make it up the hill. If it weren’t for Jay’s Yankee driving skills we would have turned around. Finally we made it to this market and ahh, wasn’t so impressed. But, if you need an Adidas track suit, let us know because that was about the only thing to buy. Very disappointing, but we did end up seeing Slum Dog Millionaire later. At the movie theater here, you get two choices of popcorn, sweet or salty. The sweet is basically kettle corn and the salty is American popcorn, minus the extra butter. So if you ever venture to the movies in England I would recommend the sweet.

We are off to Paris for the weekend, and I am sure Jay will have some more interesting things to share next week.