Winter wonderland

It's been a while, I know. Let me entice  you with some pictures to help you understand why I've had little time to update my blog.

I'm not going to lie, looking at pictures of snow is much funner than actually being in it.


It was fun for the first month, but now it's just freaking cold. To the extent you stop taking photos of it because you can't bear to have your hands out for that long.

But it's still gorgeous and has been an amazing experience.


I was also lucky(unlucky?) enough to be in Montreal for their worst winter storm in 50 years. We had 45cm of snow - that's a freaking lot. Leaving the building was like swimming through snow, up to your waist or higher.

People had to dig out their cars. (Assuming they could find them...)

Above was the view from the exit of my building. Yeah, that door opens outwards. Below is the view from outside - that's a bike on the right..

225 flights were canceled from Montreal's airport. Buses were canceled, roads were closed. Very exciting. I spent the entire day inside due to the mass amounts of snow blocking exits. They were eventually 'cleared'.

Fun times!!

Christmas was lovely, spent it with Lisa and her roomies and way too much amazing food to keep track of.

I've now left Montreal, and sit in a hostel room with everything I own, in NYC.  The train from Montreal took 12 hours, but was actually surprisingly pleasant. We both were able to claim 2 seats each, and spent the majority of the trip curled up asleep.

I'm in a 4 bed dorm, tiny room with a barely there sink. It was the cheapest place I could find over NYE, that wasn't 20 years away from central Manhattan. 60 bucks a night. It's only like 10pm though and all the girls around me are sleeping.  I'm trying to type really softly to not disturb them, as I'm pretty sure I woke everyone when I walked in and stumbled over my own suitcases(note, plural.) when trying to find my pajamas with the light of my dull phone screen. But seriously, it's 10pm, in New York, the day before NYE. Why are they asleep??

American accents though - my gosh. No wonder they love our accent. Here everyone is so nasally and unpleasant. It's quite unfortunate for them.

I've only been here a day, but I feel like I've met more Australians than Americans. Holy crap guys, we're everywhere.... like everywhere. Pretty sure we're taking over the world. And I'm okay with that.

Met up with Zoe today, pretty much like we were never apart. Haven't laughed so much in one day in forever! that girl is a funny one. Kind of surreal we're both on the other side of the world together.

Tomorrow is NYE, and it's going to be nuts! We all got tickets to a rooftop club in times square - open bar from 9pm-2am. Soo excited. If only it wasn't -3 degrees, I may look forward to wearing a skimpy dress and heels. Kind of dreading it though. We'll see!