Find your inner woman 7: the Eskimo!!

Woke up this morning to - 36 degree weather. It hurt to breath. I don't think I have ever seen that temperature on a thermometer before (mind you this wasn't a real thermometer either, just my computer, but hey you know what I mean). The weather has been so amazingly beautiful but all this lack of cloud has given us temperatures of like, negative a million, as I commonly say and I don't really know how I feel about it.

Lish being cheerful in negative a million degrees

With this freezing cold weather, I have noticed that the bunkhouse doesn't really seem to warm up. The last week, unless we keep the heater on full blast at all times, we don't actually get warm. A few minutes after it turns off...I'm cold again. Plus, it doesn't help that we have to have a fan on up here so that the rest of the place can actually get some heat. (It's kinda a weird feeling always being a little chilled indoors...reminds me of home. hehe)

Sunrise on the mountains - right outside my door!

 Another fun thing with this frigid weather is the ice ("ice!?!? you mean like snow...and igloos...and penguins and ICE!?!?!"). Yes ice. I mean, walking around isn't bad because we just have hard-packed snow but all the fabulous icicles of death hanging from every eave, our nice, shiny icewall outside the door (which keeps the dorm quite nicely refrigerated) and the skating rink on the driveway are all just great benefits of the cold. Moreover, today, we have a nice sheet of ice on the INSIDE window of our door...and frostiness on the INSIDE handle and around the INSIDE edge...I'm thinking "Day After Tomorrow"...

Icicles off the bunkhouse

But, really we are all enjoying it. Everything is so beautiful and it sure beats Abby rain 24/7. We just bundle up like Eskimos (I even brought a blanket to class it was so cold), gather around the wood stoves, and drink lots of hot chocolate and coffee. The guys have been amusing themselves by throwing pitchers of water into the air and watching it freeze into a crystalline cloud of vapour.

Me being all Eskimo-y

Today, for my PCMA, we got to spend two hours out in this weather shoveling Mt. Everest off a driveway for someone people in our church. It was FREEZING at first, but really, I think we all enjoyed it. It felt good to get out, work hard and help some people rather than spend the hours indoors baking like we have for the past two weeks - not that that wasn't a blast as well. So I feel quite like an Eskimo these days, living in this land of ice and snow and frigid temperatures. I think I'm becoming quite accustomed to it as well, not that I want to move to the Yukon or anything, but it's a nice change from the winters of my childhood. :)