22 | December | 2008 | Snorkeling the ABC Islands

Maurice has done most of the posting and I wanted to come on and gab a bit. 🙂 I wanted to say a big thank you to Peter and Mike for coming with us to Aruba this year and for helping us make memories. We had a fun time and I was so happy that they both decided to join us.

Next year’s winter holiday is already in the works and we know we are going to be going to Oyster Bay Beach Resort in Sint Maarten, in the Caribbean. Could I go to the Caribbean every year for winter? NO PROBLEM! Sign me up. I love it. We have so much fun snorkeling and exploring. 2007 we had a holiday with Maggie and Tim, 2008 we had a holiday with Peter and Mike, and 2009. Maggie and Tim are joining us. We are already in planning mode and will be bookmarking a lot of St. Martin sites so we will be informed before we go. One thing we do know, the snorkeling will be swell as our resort appears to sit right on a coal reef.

http://www.oysterbaybeachresort.com/

Max did really well at Romp Around, where Anna Maria and Brian took great care of our boy. They said he is welcome back anytime, so that’s great. Anna Maria knows the chow temperament so that helped. 🙂 When we first went to pick Max up he was barking and when I talked to him his tail went a mile a minute and he was good with me, but Maurice got a barking reception. Max was showing him he felt M was responsible for leaving him, however that was short lived and they were soon best buds again. 🙂 He settled down in the back seat and we got home Sunday afternoon from our trip.

I have to be honest and say it was not GREAT to be back as you’ve seen we arrived to snow and cold cold weather. Here in LA LA land we don’t expect that. As M said, we didn’t sign up for this! I am back on holidays again but will putter around the house and stay warm. The roads seem to be clearer tonight as a plow came through and cleared the roads here in our cul de sac.. this morning there were cars having a hell of a time trying to get out, and guys were out trying to shovel the roadways, not just their driveways, to help
people get out. The snow on the roads was about 1.5 feet in been ruts and only trucks and 4×4’s seems to be able to get out, a van was spinning and stuck in front of our house for a bit but he got going before we had to help lol Anyways the first thing I started doing was looking for some last minute cheap airfares OUT OF HERE so we could escape this winter freeze… us who had been in 29C + now enduring this -6 lol quite a shock to our nicely tanned hides.

No luck finding anything that we could afford so we are stuck here in the freeze.

Seems for the last few years running we’ve talked about the worst snow storm ever.

Like most of North America, we’re digging out from another big dump of snow this year. I hope you’re all safe and warm, and your cars are running without any additional damage!

Max likes the snow, that’s for sure. He has no problems plowing into any snowbank. The snow is piled way high.

Took about an hour to dig the driveway out this morning -third time i’ve dug the sidewalk in 36 hrs – I didn’t sign up for this – supposed to be the WET coast! And not a single car came by.

Two trucks came by, but that’s it. Basically the city is crawling. The police were recommending that only those with chains should be driving. It is very deep on the corners, easy to skid out.
The snow has buried about 30% of our display! lol Just keeping the blowups going is a challenge some nights. The snow easily beats them down.

But honestly, really enjoying the snow. Would like to find a place to skate outside!

Last night, Pam and Max and I went for a nice walk, and we cruised up the middle of the street, since there were zippo cars. He’s a very obedient guy, came running to our side every time we called him when a car dared the streets. He’s quite hysterical in the snow, when he gets pumped up.

We met another couple of dogs out in the snow, and they figured it was the off leash park haha.

He was always running back to us with face full of snow just grinning.

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