Snow Day

The day that it snowed so heavily that most of the trains were cancelled. Only a few buses were running and all schools had closed. Looking from the inside of a warm house, it was absolutely beautiful. This picture doesnt justify how amazing everything looks with a blanket of white snow over it! THe only problem with this was that snow melts... and becomes very dangerous. Trying to walk on melted snow and ice is not a good feeling. You walked so slowly that it takes you double the time to get anywhere!

A Day Out in Leytonstone

This is little Mia, 7 years old, and Wern-Yi's husband, Jeremy. I babysat Mia with Wern-Yi and Jeremy for a day. She is full of energy and very very cute.

We went to a park/open field in Leytonstone (next suburb from where I stay) and it was FREEZING cold! So cold that this picture shows a mini lake and the surface of it is frozen! It's not frozen enough for us to walk on but Mia wants to test if it'll break if she throws a piece of broken ice onto it (see next photo).

The thickness of the frozen surface was about 2-3cm thick. You can sort of see the little pieces the ice broke into.Mia found this so fascinating that she wanted me to get more big pieces of ice for her to throw. But for me to get them, I would have to walk into the water which was only a bit more than ankle deep. Now if it were any other day, I would have said no... but lucky for me, on this particular day I was wearing...

GUMBOOTS! haha.. or Wellingtons as they call it here. These are Wern-Yi's kid size gumboots that I borrowed as I was warned it was very wet and muddy. Thank goodness I listened to her... the shoes I had been wearing would soaked right through! It was a pretty cool feeling walking into the water (calf high) and knowing your feet would be completely dry!

This is the very first photo I (and Ozbear) took when I caught the Underground Tube at Heathrow Airport. It was very easy to use as there are signs and maps everywhere... and helpful station officers as well. It took me over an hour to reach my family friend's (Audrey) place but it was good timing as my plane arrived at 5am. I got to her place around 7am and they were up, ready to go to work.

This was taken at 2ish in the morning on the New Year's day. I was walking back from another family friend's (Wern-Yi) friend's NYE party in Ealing Common (in the west of London). I was so excited when it started to snow as it was the first time I had ever seen natural falling snow! It was so pretty! Very white and fluffy!

View of the street of where I live. Staying in Leyton, east of London. All the houses look the same!