It's beginning to look A LOT like Christmas!!

I woke up today....to SNOW!!!!!!! We were told it never snows here. It is suppose to get cold, and rainy even in the months of winter here, but not snow! There has to be about 2 inches on light dusty snow outside. Radio said there are traffic jams everywhere. Doug had no problems getting to work (must be all the practice from driving in snow over the years). I haven't seen many cars on our street and absolutely NO bicycles. They are usually everywhere. I guess it's a good thing we brought our snow shovel anyway. I don't even know if they have equipment to plow the roads. I haven't seen anything go by yet. The forecast is that it will lightly snow all day. It feels so much like home and Christmas! Doug has been boasting to family at home that it's so much warmer here and that we walk the dogs in sweatshirts at night. Well.....things have drastically changed in one week. I took some pictures outside. As I said before, I'm not sure what kind of snow removal equipment they have here. I saw the guy across the street at the gas station shoveling with a hand made wooden shovel.





This is the beautiful house across the street. It is HUGE!!



Looking down the side street that runs parallel to our house.



By this afternoon many more people were out and about. Teenage boys were out front of the house chasing each other and throwing snowballs. I saw many parents pulling their children on those old wooden sleds with the metal runners. A snow plow did finally come by the house. It had a typical plow like you'd see in the states, but instead of a dump truck, it was a big, green, John Deere tractor. When Doug got home from work he said that his Dutch co-workers explained that this type of snowfall only happens about every three years. It is not typical to have a white Christmas. Hopefully the snow will stick around until the end of next week and we will have a white Christmas after all.