Snow-fia

There was a nice view of the mountains north of Sofia from the expo center yesterday, and I noticed that there was a fair bit of snow on the peaks.  This was new from the last time I'd noticed, and I figured it had come at the same time as the rain we had in the city a few days ago.  We've had no snow, though.

This morning, Sara went for a run and reported it was relatively mild, so we decided to go for a walk to Borisova Gradina, the large park just south of us.  The weather was changing quickly, though, and by the time we got to the park it already felt much colder and the wind was picking up.  It was sprinkling by the time we got home.

I saw a few snowflakes mid-afternoon, and it started snowing pretty heavily by late afternoon.  The garden behind our apartment was covered within a half-hour or so.  Norah was pretty excited to see the snow when she woke up from her nap, and we put on coats and went down to play in the garden.  The snow was wet and heavy, and perfect for building a snowman.

We were planning to go for a walk, but realized we needed to bulk up our gear a bit.  We got our Norah's snowpants, as well as gloves and hats for all of us, and walked down Oborishte Street to the National Gallery for Foreign Art in a pretty heavy snow.  The gallery was nice, and featured an exhibit on the Paris World's Expo of 1900.

By the time we left it was dark, and the snow was continuing to fall.  Traffic was heavy and moving very slowly (though we did see plows out), so we decided to walk back home rather than taking a cab.  We made a dinner stop, and the snow was finally beginning to taper off by the time we got home around 7:15.  It was really pretty on the quieter streets, with a thick layer of snow on all the tree branches.  I looks like we probably ended up with around four inches total; not a bad start to winter.

One observation: I need to buy some boots.