I wish you all a Merry Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year has almost passed, and everybody is looking forward to the new year, but I think it has been a fantastic Christmas - and it has been a white one! We have got a lot of wonderful white snow this year, and a lot of it fell on December the 23rd. Therefore, a lot of people had problems getting to their destination and celebrate Christmas with family and friends. Well, it was not a complete surprise because the weatherman had warned us.

We succeeded in getting to our family, partly because we were picked up halfway since the public transportation had to give up later that day. Christmas eve was successful as it should be, but it was too bad that not all the presents had arrived. But what else would you expect when most of Europe is snowed in?

When we had to go home, we were lucky and were able to borrow a car. Our local train was out of service because of too much snow. So we slowly drove home, which, of course, took a lot longer than normal. When we came home, we were met with a half-closed street and absolutely no way of getting in our driveway. Our street was closed in one end since the municipality had not been by to remove the snow. We were lucky, though. Our neighbor had already been out driving and had removed the snow in the street running past our house. Therefore, we only had to shovel snow away from our driveway, and that took 45 min - we are not complaining since it could have been a lot worse.