Date Night and the Day After...

During the day on Tuesday, my friend called me up and asked what Carl and I were up to on Wednesday night.  I gave my usual answer of "oh ya know, probably just wining and dining, maybe some salsa dancing and a bit of relaxing" (aka. making a quick dinner, studying for a bit and going to bed early).  Even though our night sounded exciting, she asked if we would rather go see "Dralion", the new Cirque du Soleil because she could get us free tickets!!!  We of course, said YES!  Over the Christmas holiday, I had also won a gift card to a nice pub in town so we decided to start our night off with a nice free dinner!  Between dinner and the show we had a bit of time to spare so we popped into Starbucks!  One of the gals I had worked with at Starbucks was working and when she rang in our drinks she advised us that they were on the house tonight!  Now that's what I call a successful date night, free dinner, free drinks and a free show!  I have such nice friends!  The show was amazing - those people definitely have some talent!

Although the weather had been sunny and warm the previous few days (and I thought that maybe we had just skipped winter), after we got home from the show, the ice rain started!  We woke up the next morning and everything was covered with a thick layer of ice!  I had never seen anything like this before!  The bikes out front our place were slick with ice and had icicles hanging from them...     

 And each individual branch on this bush had its own covering of ice!

 On this branch you can see the ice beginning to melt.

 Even each individual blade of ice was surrounded by ice!

It took Carl at least 20 minutes to scrape the 1/2 inch coating of ice from our windshield!  Some people I knew couldn't even get into their cars and had to taxi to work!  The roads had been looked after with salt but I did see some videos of people in the surrounding area putting their skates on and skating down their own street!  It was a sight to see!

Yesterday, it snowed all day and the wind was howling making it blizzard like outside!  We haven't even ventured outside yet today as the weather network says it's about -22!  But yes, I still like Kingston because even though it's cold and snowy, it's sunny today :)