The weekend’s temp dropped to subzero with windchill of minus 45. That was what the Channel 11 weather guy said. DB and I did our shopping early Saturday morning. We did it because before the cold front hits MN, we will be smacked by an inch or two of that white fluffy thing call nuisance snow.
When we went for our dim sum brunch at Mandarin Kitchen, the snow had already started and 35W was already bumper to bumper. Good thing it was not a work day. Usually it takes us about 15 mintues to get there, it took us 30 minutes. The restaurant was pretty quiet at 10:15 a.m. As soon as we sat down, the carts came rolling towards us: char siew pau, siew mai, har kow, sticky rice, chee cheong fun, spare ribs, beef balls, fu pei wrapped with shrimps, carrot cake (can’t remember what it’s called in chinese), deep fried sesame balls, pak thong kueh which was quite sour!!, and some sort of shrimp dumpling. Yes, we ordered all of the above, of course we had to ta pau the unfinished trays. The lady who pushes that cart with the sesame balls and fu pei thing was so chatty. Spoke to me in Cantonese and told me that CNY have to eat more, any left overs is a good “yee tou”. So I just ordered and we both ate like pigs. That’s our celebration meal for Chinese New Year, anniversary, Valentines and my birthday! I forgot my camera, so no pictures to the food we ordered. All the steamed trays took up the entire two tables.
The first thing we got home was walked the boys. Yeah, I had to walk the food off. Good old 1.5 hours walk with snow just blowing onto my face. Temperature was already falling. Nice MN weather. My MIL tells us “You can have it” to us all the time when she is enjoying the 70sin Texas.
When I got home, this was what I saw in the living room.
DB brought the wood in and about to start the fire and I saw all the mess on the carpet, and he obediently sucked them up before I start at it!!! Imean there were wood chips all over the carpet from the entry way to the living room.
While he was sucking up the mess, I prepped for my DVD for my school homework, and he got the fire going after.
It was sure toastie in the living room and the only thing I do not like about is the rest of the house gets quite chilly. This is because of the temperature control is between the living room and the dining room. The controller gets the heat from the fireplace and will not run since it’s warm.
I just love the fire from the fireplace especially when there is a good set of ambers going.
We had the fire going till 10:30 p.m. DB and I had a few cups of hot instant Milo while watching my school DVDs, and after dinner, I was reading and doing my homework by the fire. DB was in his office with the boob tube on. Just nice of him to keep the fire going for me and he goes in his cold office to watch the tube.
The above picture was taken with the night scene mode. I set the camera on a table and took the picture. It turned out so much better compared to holding on to the camera. Anti-shake feature, mana ada??
Well, Sunday was the same as Saturday except that I didn’t go for a walk. If the gale force winds weren’t that strong, I might, but I hate the wind as it makes the windchill dipped to minus 60F (something like that!)