More snooooooow!

How campus looked this afternoon (Photo: Kelly Nielsen)

Tomorrow is a snow day!  I'm so happy that I know this now rather than getting up at 6am for nothing. Alex had a bit of an adventure getting home. One of the buses got stuck going up a steep hill, and when he got off the bus to walk the rest of the way, he had to quickly get out of the way of a fight (!), perhaps about a car accident... Yikes! Later, after he got off the last bus close to home, there was a crazy flash of lightning followed by thunder and hail. What a day...

Here is the scene on Wednesday morning:

Brrrrrrrrr!

 

Just Hanging Out in the Neighborhood

Can you see the minaret in the background? Our apartment building is just to the right.

 

For the first time (since August 2013), there is a place to hang out in our neighborhood! It's a cafe, Robert's Coffee, that opened up in one of the new apartment complexes. Not the best, not the worst, but good enough to have a decent cappuccino and a snack. It may even serve as a place for Alex to work on his research when he doesn't trek out to the archives.

End of Vacation Art

Spring? HA!

Just in time for the first week of classes...

Hint of Spring

Walking from the university gate to campus this morning, it sure felt like spring. It's a temporary condition; the cold rain is supposed to return next week. I was walking because the minibus was ridiculously crowded, and the driver was less mindful of his passengers than usual, so I just got out at the gate. The 10-minute walk was much more pleasant indeed!