Snow white and a Sunday lunch.

I was convinced that the Weatherman was lying when he said that last Friday would bring snow. If anything i thought there would be a few random flakes and they would just melt the second they touched the ground.

Geez was i wrong.

At around 6pm we saw the first few flakes appear and then they kept on falling throughout the night.


We woke up the next morning and everything was covered! According to the reports about 20 cm fell within a 12 hours period and because of the freak snow storm there were quite a number of accidents that night.


We spent most of Saturday indoors watching one movie after another and taking random naps in between. The weather wasn't looking too friendly anyway and sometime during the day there was another blizzard.


It only lasted about half an hour but it was enough to want to crawl back under the covers and forget the world.


Our fridge was practically empty and Hunger was calling, so we peeled ourselves off the sofa and made our way to the supermarket. On our way home, we stopped by the Irish Pub to have a beer and saw how much snow had fallen. The outdoor tables were covered in a thick layer of fresh snow, practically fused together into an icy block because it was so damn cold.

I thought Spring was just around the corner!


I reckon it was much colder than the minus 3˙C that the thermometer measured. The wind was so icy, i could feel it pierce through my layers and nibble away at my skin.


On Sunday the weather seemed perfect. The snow sparkled under the sun like diamonds. Everything looked so beautiful... behind closed doors and windows. But the temperature continued to hover around 0˙C [give or take a few degrees depending on whether you were standing in the shade or not].


We had invited J's mother for lunch, in fact our first visitor. She lives about an hour and a half away and so we figured since she never got around to visiting us in Düsseldorf, we thought we'd show her our new place.

I fried some spring rolls, chicken fillets, some kind of Turkey satay wanna-be. Alongside sugar peas with garlic and soya sauce, Fried Red + Yellow + Green Capsicums & Zucchini in a tomato based sauce and of course white rice.

Slightly nervous since that was the first time i cooked something for his mom, i hoped to all living things that the lunch was edible and tasted good.

She ended up having two helpings, so it couldn't have been that bad.


After our lunch we went to have coffee and cake in the city. The light snow during the night had frozen itself onto the windscreen and so we spent the first 10 minutes scraping the ice off. We were planning on taking a walk around the block but it was just too cold.


Before we knew it was time to say our farewells. Our weekend ended with a beautiful sunset and we were just thankful that everything went as planned.

The count down begins, 7 more days to go till i'm 30!