It snowed!

On Sunday, I was walking around the city centre while waiting in between two different church services. As I was walking along the street I noticed these fluffy things floating about in the air. They kinda looked like those really small tufts of bubble foam was flying about in the air.

Believe it or not, it took me a few seconds to realise that it was snow! I'd been to the mountains for snow back in Victoria. But you don't really get real snow in Australia. And so this was the first time I've seen it snowing in a city before. I thought it was pretty cool, but I presume most other people weren't very impressed.

However, this winter has been the coldest winter in Amsterdam in 12 years! I heard that a few weeks before I came the canals froze over and people were ice-skating on the frozen ice. I'm really really hoping that the canals will freeze over again so that I get the chance to do that. I guess that I could have always gone so ice-skating in a rink. Whats really so special about ice skating over a frozen canal? Nothing much I guess, except for the novelty of it and also the fact that I can brag that I've ice-skated over a frozen lake/canal. I've heard reports that the canals might freeze over again. My fingers are crossed...

That said, it really isin't that cold over here. I've been wearing about 3 layers. Usually a jacket to keep the cold, wind and rain out, and another two layers underneath. I noticed that in the first few days, I would always find it extremely cold coming out of a building into the open air. But I've gotten over that now. My apartment is actually really well heated and its actually even too hot to wear the warm track pants that I'd brought to wear while sleeping. Funnily enough, the apartment is even warmer than my house in Sydney.