Day 2.015: Anachronisms

After the excitements (and extreme weather experiences) of yesterday, today we planned a simpler day. A walk to the library in the morning, preparations for a birthday party and then a parting of ways to take half the family (rounded up) to said birthday party and the other half (rounded down) to church.

Unfortunately, the library is closed in the morning - so we walked there (You'll notice that there is quite a lot of snow still about - it is easy to forget. It's not melting much except where the sun can get to a dark surface near to it like the road, driveway or roof. We may even get some more on Wednesday!) and then turned around and walked straight back. Exile #3 and I (walking back with E5N1 in the pushchair by one route while Exile #2 and Exile #4 went a different way - don't ask!) invented a new game - it's called Shoveled, Thrown or Plowed (I didn't think it would translate for the UK audience so I didn't try) - it turns out that you can have a pretty good guess as to how the driveways have been cleared of snow even weeks after the event.

When we got home it was time to get ready for the party. During the process we found out that the party was yesterday. So we had lunch, went to the library (in the car this time) and then all went to church - which was a pretty good afternoon and evening to round off the weekend - if not exactly what we'd planned.