Friday, December 08, 2006

First snow for the winter - just in time to leave

Hi everyone.

This morning we woke to the first snow of the winter. It was -7 degrees celcius and the weather channel said the wind chill factor brought it down to about -12. It was a lovely reminder of the winter about to hit. Luckily we are leaving very soon for Australia!

Here are some pictures of our car this morning. The car is called Eli because it seems that Eli is a common name around here. There is Eli Yale who donated money to the University to have it named after him and Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin and henceforth cemented slavery into the US culture. Anyway here is Pete sweeping snow off Eli:
















I am off to a conference in San Francisco in a couple of days. It won't be snowing there thank goodness.

Not much other news. I will see many of you very soon! Can't wait to be warm again.