Happy Valentines Day (one day late)! I had a great day. I had my group of friends over in the morning for for my infamous scones. I also made creme fraiche and lemon curd. It was all very delicious and we stuffed ourselves. Sam gave each of us two white tulips and chocolates. Barb and Isobel brought me a bromeliad and a fun card. In the afternoon I worked on a collage. At 4:30 Barb, Isobel and I met up to go downtown. We went out to eat at the French bakery. I had a Greek salad and spinach quiche. We then went to hear the National Philharmonic Orchestra. It was a fantastic concert (for the unbelievable price of US $6.13!). The first half consisted of Ukrainian songs and a woman sang for 4 of the songs. What a voice ! After intermission they played show tunes; from Cats, Smoke gets in your eyes; Stevie Wonder 'I just called to say I love you'; Man from La Manche; Get me to the church on time; the Can Can; From Evita, 'Don't cry for me Argentina'; something from My fair Lady; were some of them. It was very fun. We went out for a drink afterwards and had fabulous desserts. We bought flowers and pussywillows on the way home.

I have internet!!!!!!!! I'm still waiting for a person to come and make it wireless. It is 8 and he is coming yet tonight. How weird. Nothing is easy over here.
We woke up to a 1/2 inch of snow but it had all melted by 10. It had started to rain when school got out.
Tomorrow night Isobel, Barb and I are going to a concert. I don't know what it is.

Ukraine experience no. _____: Being stuck in an elevator in a country where your friend is the only one who speaks English. Luckily I was only in there for apx. 40 minutes. I doodled in my sketchbook. Suzanne said I should have taken a picture of myself in the elevator.
We had sunshine yesterday and it was glorious to see the sun! Today we have fog. It has been warm, tho. In the low 40s for about a week.
We had tacos at Isobel's last night and it was very good.

Our flight to London was cancelled on Friday. Luckily we didn't make it to the airport before we found out. We were able to have our taxi drop us off downtown. We went exploring and out to eat. Saturday we went shopping and to Billa, an Austrian grocery store. At seven everyone came to my place to watch a movie. Sunday I stayed home and was creative.
Yesterday was a very difficult day for me. I was terribly home sick and very frustrated with work. I blamed it on the full moon. Today was better.

On Thursday a family friend died. She was 95. I feel like I have lost a Grandmother. I am very glad I got to visit her while I was home for X-mas.
We leave for London at 3:30 today. We have our fingers crossed that we don't get stuck in traffic on the way to the airport.
Yesterday it warmed up again and the snow and ice started to melt. We now have lots of fog this morning.