The week after the great snow...

Hello again,
Some of the ex-pats say about 8 years ago it snowed enough to stick to the ground but pretty much everyone agrees it's been about 30 years since we've had a snowfall like this. Our school bus was only about an hour delayed, although I think it technically only made one stop where all the kids had to get off. Luckily not a far walk for anyone. Joe's friend Oskar stayed the night as his father wasn't able to get to the bus stop by car and by foot it's a long walk. They made him abandon his car on the road and wouldn't let him drive home either...and that sort of explains the bad traffic inside the city as cars and more importantly buses were abandoned on the street. Out by us the problem was more accidents and downed trees. Nick tried to leave around 8 pm, normal time for him...and by then the trains were no longer running because trees were down on the line. They told him that the trains should be running by 10 so he went with a bunch of his co-workers for a drink. A couple of hours later the trains still weren't running and they couldn't get a cab out of town. They heard that they could get a train to Sarria and then a bus to Sant Cugat. So they took the train but no bus...and eventually found an adventurous cab driver who got them home-ish. They had to take another exit as our was closed...and the next exit is not one we ever take so it took them to a section no one recognized...and they were dropped off at the circle at Can Cadena in town because he couldn't get up the hill. Then he and his co-worker who just recently moved onto Mas Fuster, the road that runs on the top of the ridge that we walk along to the bus stop, walked the rest of the way. He got home around 12:45. Long day. At least the kids got to sleep in the next morning but Nick had to go in to work again. Thankfully the trains were running...and by mid-afternoon most of the streets were passable.

I took a walk to Sant Cugat since we were out of milk....and bread...and eggs.

It was so pretty with the snow on the trees/flowers but also dangerous as trees lost a lot of limbs on Tuesday from the weight of the snow.

Then Wednesday I went to pottery and was surprised that my pitcher was glazed and ready to go home!

On Friday Jessica didn't have school because of Parent Teacher Conferences. I scheduled all mine for next weekend...and so we took the opportunity to have a special Mom-daughter day. I arranged for Jess to go with me to my pottery class. The kids have wanted to go for the longest time but it's not a kid place. I got special permission and they treated her like a queen.

Jess making her mug...

Drying it a little to get it to hold it's shape.

Here is her finished products....minus the firing and glazing.

And we finished our afternoon with a little birthday present shopping for some parties we had this weekend and lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.

Today Andrea had arranged for the cast of Godspell to perform for our church congregation as a bit of free show publicity. Here are some pictures of the two songs....Andrea has the role of Judas.

Nick is in NY for the week so it's just me and the kids. Hope everyone has a fun St.Patrick's day!!
Love and miss you all!
~Bren