"Does California even have snow?" --Sarah, my UK roommate

So for all of you that I laughed at when you asked if it snowed in Ireland....you can start laughing at me now! Apparently I have this power to bring snow with me to places that normally shouldn't snow at all. Either that or my Canadian roommate brought it with her, which is a BIG possibility! After getting snow into Marseille in the south of France, a place that hadn't seen snow in over 25 years, I should have been prepared. A storm that is going through the UK has decided to drop some snow into Ireland...or as the locals call is "Island." They literally call Ireland 'I-land'. It's not that it sounds like 'island' because of the accents, but they call it that...i mean it makes sense if you think about it....But anyways, so my little island has decided to snow! :) The snow only sticks at night when it drops down real cold, but in the day large snowflake-clusters fall pretty hard. Everyone at work was really excited because it never snows, (and probably because it was snow and not rain) so we all ran outside to take some pictures!

But before the pictures let me walk you through what my morning was like when I woke up to this white Monday. I had woken up and was getting ready with my blinds open because it was blue skies and sunny...something that doesn't happen here very often. So I'm super excited and shut my blinds, headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth and then downstairs to leave. Since I was on the later shift at work I was the only one home, and in the time it took me to do the things I just mentioned it somehow decided to start snowing. I had walked into the kitchen to grab my lunch and was literally in shock as I just stood there staring out the window. I honestly thought it was just ashes from a fire, that's how San Diego I am.
Here's my first video:


Now after I took that video, in the time it took me to run upstairs to get my "California-girl-is-scared-of-Europe-in-the-winter jacket," gloves and head to the front door....it had stopped snowing and was basically sunny again! I really don't understand this place....

Sarah, me and Roisin outside work with i-to-i brochures

The town square from the office window...


Sarah, Rosie and me
Vic-the-van (aka: "The beast") with snow on his head out my window...yes this is our company van..oh trust me more pictures of him are to come.
Outside the office doors...did I mention they were bright orange??
Silly girls playing in the snow
Sara eating the snow..
We think we should be on the next brochure cover titled
'Imagine the Possibilities'