baby, it's cold outside...

on Sunday, after a relatively nice (yet cold) Saturday that ended in gross amounts of rain, we woke up to THIS outside our bedroom window...

helloooooo November 1st. we'd been told by friends that October and May are the best months in Beijing, weather-wise, and that typically things get cold pretty fast. we just weren't expecting it to be THIS fast. after getting over the fact that it was, in fact, snow...and sending a few AHHH IT'S SNOWING WE CAN'T SCOOTER IN THIS texts to J&M...we finally started getting ready to venture out. you'd think after growing up in Rochester I'd be used to this, but it's been awhile. California makes you soft.

the snow's now melted, but it's still pretty cold...and the heat doesn't come on in our apartments until nov 15. as with many things here, heat for the entire city is govt-controlled. so we've been bundled like crazy. we didn't buy our tin of hot chocolate a day too soon...