Snow!

We have had rather a lot of snow here over the weekend - much more than is typical for Istanbul. It started snowing Friday night and snowed pretty much continually until Monday evening, and then a bit more yesterday. I think we had about 2 feet of snow over the weekend! Today's been the first day that we could actually allow J to walk outside by himself (which slightly backfired as rather than walking in the clear-ish bits, he insisted on walking on the snow...).

But we have enjoyed it! On Saturday we took J to our nearest proper park for his first proper experience of snow and we did a little bit of sledging (on our makeshift cardboard-in-a-plastic-bag sledge) as well. We've also had fun just pottering around right outside our apartment building, throwing snow around and spotting snowmen.

But now, having spent most of our time inside the flat the last few days, we are more than ready to get out and about again...

Our street on Saturday morning. We had even more snow later that day and the next day!

The park on Saturday morning, about 10.30. Pretty much deserted!

Sledging fun