Let's talk about the weather

We returned to Canada last month to visit friends and family for a few months. This is our first time coming to Canada since we left for Cambodia early January 2017. We arrived in April thinking we'd come in time for summer. We got off the plane in Vancouver, it was less than 10 degrees and raining. We froze. As we dragged our luggage through downtown Vancouver in the rain trying to find the cheap hotel we booked, soaked to the bone, I turned to Colin and said "I hope this hotel has hot water!"

We arrived, cranked the heat to the max (which was only 25 degrees) and I enjoyed a hot shower. Hot water came out of the sink too! I sat on the toilet and just about shrieked with how cold it was. Our toothpaste was cold, my face cream was now thick again, and we shivered ourselves to sleep.

A couple days after arriving in Canada, we ran a race in Vancouver. It started off sunny but cool but then it began hailing for the final few kilometers. Hail and slush. Then we went to Calgary and enjoyed some sunshine. As we made our way East, we woke up to snow on the car and drove through a snowstorm.

Now, as I sit in a Tim Horton's writing this blog post, it's raining outside. I think it's a pretty accurate stereotype that Canadians talk about the weather a lot. It's true because there's just SO MUCH weather here to talk about. When family would call us in Cambodia and talk about the weather, often they'd ask us what the weather was like for us in Cambodia. It's hot. It's raining. It's hot. Hot. Hot. Same same, but not so different from day to day.