On White Snow and a Purple Foot

Feraya, seen from downtown Beirut

So it snowed and it snowed and it snowed some more. Today, sunny skies, and the snow lies as low as Broumana. That’s pretty low for Lebanon. Ski slopes opened today, I heard, but alas, all I could do was look at it from afar. The picture taken at in the snow itself (below, at night) was actually taken by someone else (http://www.savelebanon.org/serendipity/) who often posts great shots of Lebanon.

Anyway, the reason why I haven’t been skiing yet is because on Christmas Day, I stepped in a hole while unloading the one million presents from my car to the house of my sister-in law, where the unwrapping was taking place. The ankle was so thick I couldn’t even wear my shoe that day. Now we are three days later, and this is what it looks like now. With a little luck I should be on the slopes in a week from now. Let’s hope we’ll have snow by then.

In the meantime I am playing around with my new laptop. You get the laptop as a present, but then you need to buy a new mouse, a new keyboard (I like big bulky keyboards, not the puny laptop ones), an external harddrive, a new printer, as my old printer does not have a USB cable, a new scanner (same issue) and on and on we go. At least I was finally able to connect to the internet again, after three days of inactiv