First real snow, and our present to us

This morning we woke up to this:

Snow!  Finally!  We of course ran outside to check it out :)

The squirrels were still out despite the sub-zero weather.

It really looks like winter now.

It was a little chilly, but not as cold as we would have thought - I swear it's felt much colder when it was supposedly 6 or 7 degrees.

The annoying part was that we walked home, and half an hour later it was all gone - melted.  This wasn't really what I was expecting!  In my mind, the snow was supposed to start and then it would be on the ground until February and snowing every day.  In reality, we've been waiting since the end of October for it to start and now we get one little snowfall and it all disappears within an hour!  I'm starting to think we should have moved to Calgary instead :P

America is having their "Black Friday" sales (the day after Thanksgiving - the same as Aussie Boxing Day sales), and they spill over to Canada, with a lot of places having the sales all weekend despite it not being a holiday here.  We decided that despite the agreement not to buy a TV until Stephen got a job, this was a good time to buy a TV :P

We're not that fussed on having the best TV out there - we just wanted something that we could watch the Apple TV on.  They don't seem to make small TVs anymore - for some reason the 40in TVs were all cheaper than the 32in ones, so we've ended up with this giant monster TV which looks absolutely gigantic compared to what we're used to.  For people who care, it's a Samsung 40in LCD with full HD, and it cost $700 including tax.  Not too bad!

Here it is in all its glory - so much to catch up on!  We will have to check out the Canadian iTunes Store to see whether it's worth having a third account.  I guess this purchase means that we now officially have nothing left to buy!