My first encounter with Snow!

a fun drive..way under the speed limit

My first encounter with snow has been frightening yet fascinating. I landed in US on 07 Jan 2011 with about a hundred pounds of luggage, a single layer of clothes (from the tropical island 'Mumbai') and with high temperature in the mid-20s to lower 30s (Fahrenheit)! As far as I remember, New York/New Jersey was struck with a snow storm and there was almost up to a foot of snow in Connecticut. Thankfully my husband GJ – who is pretty accustomed to New England’s unpredictable weather – got some gloves and snow jackets when he came to pick me at the Liberty International Airport, Newark.  

Crazy about snow

For starters, I got crazy when I saw snow, started jumping around, singing songs, playing with snow and I so wanted a snow man and snow angles of my own right then and there, that GJ had to push me in the car to take me home. We did halt at a few places on our way home, for coffee and breakfast, where I enjoyed my fascinating moments with snow. GJ was having a hard time driving, I guess it took him almost 6 hours (instead of a 3 hour journey) to get to Newark. 

And as we got closer to home, I encountered the most mysterious part of New England - the weather!! The snow was almost gone half –way thru’ Connecticut and it was sunny in Massachusetts. For the first time ever, I saw a completely frozen lake (an outlandish phenomenon for someone from the tropical weather) and I danced like a peacock  in the snow. As I reached home (after a long and tiring 13 hour drive for GJ), my love for snow had reached newer heights. The view from our living room was awe-striking with heaps of snow in the lawn and chipmunks playing around, a distant teeny tiny frozen pond with the cardinals and blue jades, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak mounds!  

This was the time I decided  to begin my relationship with snow!!!

View form our living room

ooooo i found a nut ^_