Shopping, Snow, and "SURPRIZE!!!"

At least the snow gives us some roof insulation. It started as we went to Courtenay on Saturday. By the time we had picked up everything we needed and had run all of our errands it was seriously accumulating. It never really got too bad on Hornby, but we heard that it snowed over 25cm in town. OK, that's not a huge deal for all you readers back East, but it's pretty significant out here.

I took this photo as we were picking up a coffee on our way to the ferry in the morning. That's Bobcat with Rachelle. Bobcat was there having just left a big pirate themed party at the ball park. He's not in costume.

When we got home later that afternoon we headed down to Pete and Judith's, our neighbours down the hill. When we got there it became obvious that they had arranged a bunch of friends to come by and help celebrate my upcoming birthday. It was a most excellent party involving blender drinks, cake, home made squares, and that king of foods, the barbecued cheeseburger. YUM!! Thanks so much everyone who came, and especially Pete and Judith for hosting and Rachelle for pulling it all together.

Pete and Judith live at the bottom of a good toboggan hill and around 10PM a bunch of us heading out to do some drunken nighttime sledding. No one got seriously hurt, we all got a bit wet, and good times were had in buckets.

Speaking of buckets, check out our dish washing station. Its one thing to not have running water inside the house, but when you have to break the ice to get at the wash basin, things are getting a little rougher than I was bargaining for.