SURPRISE CHRISTMAS EVE SNOW | The Roving Vlogger Day 86 (2017-12-24)
Imagine my surprise when we stepped outside to catch the bus and everything was covered in snow! It was still coming down in big, wet, fluffy flakes. Since we've been away for so much of the winters, this is the first Seattle snowfall I'd seen in years. And it was happening on Christmas Eve!
We couldn't contain our excitement as we ran over the smooth white sidewalks to the bus stop. Of course, the bus was delayed and the snow was so unexpected that our bus driver had to stop for a while and phone in to get the special snow routes. "When I left this morning, I asked whether I needed to bring the snow routes along and my boss said, 'No, not today.' Ha!"
On the plane, I sat behind a six-year-old girl on her way to visit her mother's family in Billings while her father was flying home to Africa. She turned around and held her stuffed bunny out to me. I shook his paw and in that moment she declared, "I'm going to talk with you for the rest of the flight!"
She stuck to her word, the kind of gregarious girl my shyness kept me from being. Sometimes, her little sister distracted her, but sure enough a couple seconds later she would turn back around and stick her head between the window and the seat and shout, "Katie, guess what?"
She was curious about my Kindle, and when I explained that it held books inside it she squinted at the page and asked such a classic little-kid question that I almost couldn't believe this was real life: "Where are all the pictures?"
"They're in my head," I said.
"Oh. That's not as fun."
"It's fun, but it's not as easy to share."
"Will you read it out loud to me?"
I looked down at the page. In this particular scene, one of the characters was executing four people with bullets to the back of their heads.
"No. I'm not going to read this out loud, I'm sorry."
She looked disappointed but soon got over it. Bunny went on to eat all the windows in the plane and then rebuild them. Christmas carols were sung at the top of her lungs (particularly the Fa-La-Las of Deck the Halls). And I was kept thoroughly entertained for the flight.
When we arrived in Montana, it was already Christmas. Nash's parents picked us up and we were re-united with Ralph and we talked late into the night... but telling my Christmas tale is for another day.
Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope everyone had a magnificent day whether you celebrate this particular holiday or not!
- Katie, @therovingreader
nice post
Merry Christmas @therovingreader!
Thank you @artz! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
So I decided to try to upload to dtube... I’ve spent the last two hours wasting my time, re-uploading a twenty second video so that it can ask for or take a snap picture. I offer it one and it says error, when I take one it takes me to a new page with that picture with no way to get off that page. If I hit back page, it takes me back and the video is no longer uploaded and I’m at square one. I looked for tutorials, not many good ones in search engine. What I found was that it’s best to use Firefox (I’m on my IPad). I downloaded Firefox. I still get IPFS error!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What gives? I’m turning green and busting out of my clothes. Unfortunately it’s not hulk-out muscle, it’s just the Indian food I’ve been eating is making me nauseated and bloated.
Oh my god, I've almost gone hulk-mode on DTube too. Sometimes I get an error that my chosen Snap is too big and then I can no longer upload a new one, and going back loses the uploaded video. Other times, uploading just fails outright. It's not so bad at Ralph's place in Seattle because there's good internet there, so I just try again until it works. But right now in Montana, I'm just praying that the hours-long process finishes. DTube is definitely still a work in process. I wish I had better advice. :(
Thanks. The commiserating is enough to make me feel better.
Lol....im always happy of the first snow...the second is meh meh...the third time it falls its: damn snow again! -.-"
Hey @atopy! I've never lived where it snows more than twice in one year, so I never get tired of it!
When you have to get up at 530, it’s four degrees, and you have to shovel your car out, then scrape a layer of ice from your windows, then drive to work in a car that warms up as you’re pulling into the parking garage of work, you will get tired of it fast. Sun, sun, sun for me!
And that right there is a list of reasons I've never chosen to live in the snow!