Life - on hold

So my blog is probably starting to sound like an endless series of weather reports now. It's not that cold weather's anything new, or even interesting. The thing that amazes me is that it's just so incredibly cold that it seriously puts life on hold, or at least slows it down a lot.

Last weekend, it got down below -20 with the windchill, so poor Kyan didn't even get to go outside. It's just too cold for his little baby body. I managed to take a run down to Home Depot (like Bunnings, but a fair bit bigger) to get a new shower head. That was exciting. I've done the trip before on the bus, but this week I took the subway so I didn't have to wait above ground.

Apart from that, I made a couple of quick trips to the shop over the road, and a longer trek to Key Foods, the supermarket about 400 metres away. That was to get the ingredients for pizza - yum.

We watched the Super Bowl (a game of American Football) while we had our pizza. The Super Bowl didn't hold much interest, but the commercials were great. Companies advertising during the SB spend millions on their ads and quite often never show them again. I can at least say I've watched the SB now. Tick that off the list.

There was a picture in today's Metro (free newspaper) of the main lake in Central Park completely frozen over. I might try to get up there on the weekend and take some photos. During the warmer months, there are people having wedding photos taken next to the lake, and people in row boats on it. If I can brave the elements, it should be a worthwhile photo.

We're in for another arctic front to come through, so no warmth for a while yet. It's probably why you can fly to London for $400 return at the moment!