* * * Snow Day * * *

Well today I finally experienced one of those things we heard about at kids but  never had at home – a snow day!!! More on that later….

After a couple of hectic weeks at work, I was looking forward to heading away on Friday to Dusseldorf to meet up with David. The weekend didn’t start so well with HSBC putting a stop on my account card on Friday afternoon (still no idea why) which meant I had no money to get from Dusseldorf airport to our hotel.  After hearing my dilemma while I has arguing with HSBC over the phone, a very nice man sitting next to be on the Heathrow Express gave me some money to cover the trip. I know he won’t read this but I still wanted to say a huge thank you, it was very much appreciated! Not the first major issue with have had with HSBC so we will be looking to change banks on the weekend me thinks.

Anyways, we stayed at a lovely hotel in Dusseldorf, really pretty hotel room and woke up to a lovely sunny morning on Saturday. We had a great day wandering around Media Harbour and it’s impressive modern buildings, the lovely Old Town and the Japanese town where we had a fanastic lunch.

Dusseldorf is a really pretty city and everyone was so friendly. The river was impressive too, the Rhine is essentially a water highway and we saw almost everything possible being freighted by boat.

One of the German guys that I work with had recommended a dinner show and we decided we would go to celebrate my birthday. The show is called Palazzo and is a cabaret / Vanderbilt / circus type show with an amazing dinner – http://www.palazzo.org/

It is set in a Spiegelpaläste, which is an opulent tent, and David and I had a fantastic booth. The show was great and 70% of it was in English so that was helpful! There was an amazing four course dinner (probably the best meal that I have had since Australia and the Angus beef was actually one of the best meals that I have EVER had). We just had a fantastic night! In fact, the head waiter, who was also one of the main actors brought David and I an extra main course to enjoy as we loved it so much! Great way to celebrate by birthday weekend away.

Yesterday we went to the art gallery and enjoyed the Old Town in the afternoon.

Our flight back to London was delayed due to snow in London! We landed into very heavy snow and we pretty amazed when we got off the Tube! It started snowing around 3pm yesterday afternoon and was pretty thick as we were walking home. Made a tiny snowman in our backyard last night before heading back to bed…………….only to wake up to even more snow!

It was amazing this morning, our street looked beautiful and everyone was out enjoying it. Tried to get to work a couple of times today – train line down, all buses cancelled, no taxis and there was no way I was walking all the way to work – absolutely no was I could get to work – so I have had a Snow Day!!

It is the most amount of snow that London has had for 18 years. They are saying 20cm in London but the snow outside is over a foot deep! I walked David to work and we had a couple of snow fights along the way. All schools were closed and all the parks have been packed with people enjoying the snow.

It is meant to clear up tonight so hopefully I can get into work tomorrow but it has been a very fun day and London looks just beautiful in the snow.

Published in: on February 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm Leave a Comment