What a beautiful winter we have in Manitoba this year! Winnipeg is not Winterpeg at all! Lots of snow combined with warm days made even my sick son go outside and make his biggest snowman. It’s only in Canada that kids may miss school because of coughs but not miss the opportunity to enjoy the white snow. And it is really white! 15 minutes and our Jack Frost was ready. We tried different hats and mitts to make him look more stylish. Our artificial snowman looked sad and jealous in the end, he has never experienced such attention.

I’ve never enjoyed winter so much as here in Manitoba. Though my native city is in western Siberia and the climate is almost the same, but the feeling is different. One Friday my son returned back from school and said: “We had a skating and a swimming class today.” I was shocked! In one day! Where else you can experience such attitude to kids’ sport activities. Lots of fresh air, skating arenas in every small town, curling clubs for kids (I only saw curling on TV before), skidoos flying along highways  on high speeds. By the way skidoo trails have almost the same road signs on their way, just the small ones.

By buying a skidoo license you can be always sure that the trail will be cleaned by municipal tractors from snow for your next ride.  All these things just don’t let you sit inside of your house.  So we continue enjoying winter and see you soon.