Fairly quiet week (apart from the usual hockey of course!). The Canadian winter is definitely creeping up on us...today we had a high of -14 with a windchill that made it -18. So tad chilly on the school run this morning at 8.30am! The kids were well wrapped up in all their winter kit and I am happy to say my snow boots have had their first outing! The temperatures are not set to improve much now and there is snow forecast tonight. I'll be able to pull the kids to school on thier sledges soon(well of course I mean Leigh will be able to pull the kids to school!). The winter driving course I went on last week was all theory so although useful,a little dull! We are going out on the airfield as soon as the conditions are bad enough to practice some skidding - apparently no one has rolled a car yet..! We are off to Calgary this weekend for 3 days with another couple and their son. Its apparently even colder there! We have driven through Calgary a couple of times and have seen the Olympic Village and the big Ski Jumps etc. We shall have to keep Ben away from there as he was eyeing the jumps up trying to decide which one he would do first! We also have tickets to see Medicine Hat Tigers play Russia (ice hockey) on Thursday eve so that should be fun too. I shall blog the snow tomorrow...if it arrives...