Snow

Every year the Winter Parade is one way Minnesotans thumb their noses at the winter weather – well, some Minnesotans. The rest of us make sure we stay warm.

In these photos you can see were we observed the parade from – we were invited by a Company who had rented a passage of the Skyway for their guests for the evening. Normally these passages connect all the buildings in the city center, so that you can walk round the whole city and not once go outside. And to prevent you from having to cross the road in this way, these passages are all on the second floors of every building and connect the buildings with eath other way above street level. All the shops in the builsings are also on this Skywalk on the second level.
The big thing about the parade is of course the fact that all the floats carry thousands of small lights and even people in the parade wear costumes with lights on. (Remember, in winter the sun sets here before five in the afternoon!)

At the Kuhn’s house! A most happy accoasion. And so grandly hosted! And everybody’s contribution makes for delicious eating – even the pie says so!

With a very busy program for both me and Gina, Jacques was scared we were not going to have time to set up the Christmas tree – so he jumped in and did it all himself!

A good eight inches of snow and cold weather ahead means that we will most likely have a white Christmas. Of course the two boys enjoy the snow!

Wilhelm makes a snow angel! You push him over to fall neatly on his back in the virgin snow and then he waves his arms and legs on the snow. The resulting shape is that of an angel with wings.

Beatiful sticky snow has been falling and it transforms all the grey trees to be part of the fairy tale landscape.

This is different from the ice rain that freezes on the tree branches and hangs from them in glistening crystal decoration.