OK, so our little guy, 8 yrs old and I are going to see our new grand child, a gorgeous baby girl who was born on October 1st and our eldest son is the father. We are going to a very cold part of Canada in Regina.
Our little guy is the only one in our family who has never seen or lived in snow. I just found out the it is 30 degrees BELOW ZERO!!!!!!! Where we are going!!!!!!
My son just told our little one how they don't even allow their children to go play in the snow when it is this cold. Of course the little guy has nothing to relate this to and was crying because he wants to build a snow man. I told him that if he starts turning purple, inside he goes!
Now, down here in Florida we don't even have items to purchase for the severe cold weather. We moved here from Seattle 15 years ago, the longest I ever lived in one place. I lived in Hawaii, Utah, California, and all over Europe and most places in Asia. We would go in the winter to Jackson Hole Wyoming every year when we lived in Utah so we know snow. We know all about it. However in 15 years there is no way that we have any cold weather items left. In fact, when we moved from Seattle we gave all of our winter clothing to others who needed it there.
We did find some ski socks at Sports Authority and we have found thermal under clothing.
What do you who live in this kind of weather recommend for outer wear and foot wear for us? We are only going to be there for a week and then we won't have use for the clothing after that so we don't want to go through a huge expense. I would rather use our funds to help our son and his family because things like baby clothes are quite expensive in Canada.
I will also be talking to people who live and work in Canada as we will be staying with our son and not in a hotel. I want to show our son how people live in different countries and different economic scales. My parents provided me with many wonderful cultural experiences in many places of the world and we passed that on to our children. Since we homeschooled our kids we had the freedom to travel with them to many countries and states.
We get our news from around the world seldom getting our news from U.S media these days. THe view point from the rest of the world helps me to understand a wider perspective. I have been gathering some research because I plan to write about Canada when I get back. Hopefully I can write some while I am there after I read their laws on what we can write and can not write:)
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