Snow Day!

Monday morning, I ended my post rather abruptly with the news that classes were cancelled and we were to have a snow day. I don't know what it is about those two words, but they somehow manage to create a desperate need to jump up and down like a little kid and dance up and down the hallways. Apparently I've been missing out on a defining experience of life in the more temperate climes of Southern California.

The next day, my mother asked me in an email if I manged to get any work done since there was no class to attend. My response:

"Well....I MEANT to get a lot done yesterday....but then there was the snowball fight....and then the second snowball fight....and then the sledding on the hill across the canal....and then the hot coco/waffle/ice cream/brownie party at Emily's....and then the decision to take reading material on the tube and weather through the severe delays to take pictures of Parliament with snow on them....and then the tube kicking us off at Aldgate East on the way back and the bus system being down so we had to walk the rest of the way home....and the picking up of pizza on the way home....and then the being so thoroughly wet and cold that I took a hot shower and climbed into bed with an X-men movie...and then the west wing episode afterwards...and then the sleeping....I didn't actually get as much done as I anticipated."

Now I know what your next thoughts are: where are the pictures of all this gloriousness? Some are below, and I do have a link to my album below, but I'm still waiting to steal some of my friends pictures that actually have me in action shots. These will have to hold you over in the meantime.

The view from my window is much different than the one I posted earlier this month.


Wow...deep snow! Such a new and unfamiliar concept!



Snowball fight! The gentleman in the brown on the left is my friend Kevin, the gentleman in the brown in the middle is our new British friend Haider, and the woman on the right is Hilary.


Parliament has snow on it! Pretty!


There have been requests for a picture of my motley crew, so here is one for your perusal. From left to right, they are: Hilary, Caitlin, Kevin, Vanessa, and Emily. (If you click on the picture, you can enlarge it.)


There were snowmen everywhere, and this one was particularly cool.


Caitlin the tourist! It even has snow on it.


Snow falls on Big Ben clock tower at night.


More pictures are, as always, here.

Tuesday was less exciting, though classes were again canceled. As the snow had pretty much turned to mush, however, I actually did school work and spent the day grocery shopping and sloughing through a dense book about the marriage negotiations of Elizabeth I for a paper I have to write before I dash off to Italy and Switzerland. Classes have now resumed, though there are rumors of more snow on the way........