Winter Storm ... kinda

We had a major winter storm yesterday... turning to rain and +15'C weather today. Crazy.

We discovered at morning meeting that the Christmas program was moved ahead to directly after Sunday School because of the storm, expected to begin in the early afternoon. Dad and Mom Swan drove down from Truro to be at the program.

So after Sunday School we had a turkey dinner, which was delicious, and then we got ready for the program. I thought Janelle's class was the cutest, but I could be biased. They were dressed up as angels hiding behind sheep and Maggie was dressed up as the shepherd. They were a little uncoordinated, but so adorable.

After the five (or was it six, or four?) classes made their presentations it was "gift time" and everything degenerated into fun and crazy chaos with kids opening their presents everywhere and leaving wrapping paper all over, and people being generally in a hurry to leave because of the storm. (Storms out here and in Toronto are so much worse than in Kapuskasing because it takes a very long time to get the plows on the roads out here.) We drove Dan and Katie home because their car got hit by a snowplow and afterwards Janelle and I went home.

I was working at five, but Colin called at four and told me they were expecting to close early because of the storm. The roads were very bad and people were advised to stay in. Our delivery drivers were off the road. Colin told me to bring boots and stuff and be prepared to spend the night at his place because he didn't want Janelle driving out to pick me up in the terrible weather if the roads stayed bad.

So Janelle drove me to work and then went over to Daniel and Katie's for supper. Gospel meeting was canceled. At work, it had been dead for over and hour, but as I arrived more customers started coming in. Unfortunately they had been expecting to close and had nothing ready so that was frustrating, but we got everything going again and customers were coming in pretty steady for a little while.

We closed up at six thirty and I called Janelle to come pick me up. She came with Dan and Katie and we all went back to Dan and Katie's and had dessert. It was delicious Brown Betty--which is kind of like apple crisp. Afterwards we sat around and talked and then watched "Hairspray." The movie was funny and kind of cool, after I got over being creeped out by John Travolta in a dress and married to Christopher Walken, who's pretty creepy all on his own. It was a cute movie anyway and really funny with a really cool message.

When we left Dan and Katie's it was almost ten o'clock and the snow had turned to rain and everything was slushy and disgusting. So much for a winter storm...

This morning the sky is somewhat clear, it's kind of warm, and the snow is still melting.