It's snowing!

Mon 4th Dec 06

The snow is finally here! we have been waiting for quite some time... apparently the snow came late this year... and it was forecast to snow early in the morning... about 3am... when I got up in the morning and opened my room door... i saw my back porch covered with snow... for a moment i just stood there... IT'S SNOWING!! first time i saw snow... haha.. a bit mountain turtle la... it just feel so new... something i've never seen before... when we were driving to work... the snowflakes just blow against our windshield... something u would never see in sg... but well.. since this entry is a super back back back-log... of cos after u have been thru the whole winter.. u kinda don't wish it to snow.. cos it makes driving more hazardous and the accumulation of snow and the hardening of them when they start to melt... is really not tat fun anymore... but anyway.. for this day... it was still quite a big thing to me... when we reach office.. i bumped into a few of them in the corridor.. and we decided to go out and take a pic... my first snow experience ever!

Portland

Sat 2nd Dec 06
Some of them wanted to go Portland because there is suppose to be Xmas lightings in the area... before we went.. we met at the Dairy Queen near our place... beside it is a place called Caboose Bagel... quite a cute looking place... it is in the form of a train carriage... we've been in US for nearly half a year and this is the first time I've been in it though we pass by it everyday...

we left for Portland after that... just walking pretty aimlessly along the streets.. checking out maps and asking around to find out where are the places we could go... in the end we ended at the Civic Center... supposedly there will be an ice hockey match tat night... and there was a team practising inside.. it's the first time i see pple playing ice hockey... and there is this guy at the entrance... he was pretty frenly... informed us of the hockey matches... about the place... and even allow us to stick around to watch the team practise...

then it was time for lunch.. we stumbled upon this place called 'Becky's Diner' which supposedly served the best fish chowder in Maine... but it turned out to be a watery potato and fish soup... how disappointing...

after lunch it's more walking around before we decided to go down to freeport... where the xmas lightings were... well... i would say that is an overstatement as well... it's no where near our lightings in Orchard Road... to put it simply... it's just lots of lights on trees... the only thing tat i thought was interesting was a big xmas tree... with nalgene bottles as the xmas lights... the bulbs were in the bottles and the lights take the colour of the bottles... pretty innovative though...

oh.. today is kor kor's bd... we got him a jacket... and came back by evening to have dinner with him... KY came with us too... and went to our house for a visit.. since she has never been to our house before...

so that concluded the day at Portland....

-jiahua