Weddingbee Blog

I revealed our two minimoons, and if you may have noticed that neither destination has “…beach, sunshine, and people to bring me drinks with umbrellas in them all day long…” Don’t worry hive, I didn’t give up my dreams that easily.

Once we decided to take two little trips this summer, we thought we’d postpone Costa Rica until later this year/early next year. Do you know what this means? This means that we will be going somewhere warm in the winter. Let me say that again in case you missed it: WARM in the WINTER. It might be my fault for living where I do, but I spend the majority of winter whining about how cold it is, how much I hate cold, hate snow, hate my snow boots, hate my puffy down coat, hate the wind chill… you get the picture.

To give you a hint about what bothers me so much, here are some visual aids:

Pretty, yes. Also FREAKING COLD. You can tell it is FREAKING COLD because I’m standing on a lake. (Lake Louise, for the curious.)

Exhibit B: I took this photo the night Cinnamon Buns and I got together. Our dating anniversary is June 18. No, that was not a typo, I did mean June. (The picture was taken in Banff.)

Exhibit C: This was my birthday morning this year. I’m an Aries, so I’ll let you figure that one out.

This is 3 AM after the stumble home from birthday / closing night beverages at the bar, and an impromptu snowball fight. (Cinnamon Buns made a snow angel, and walking by it every day for the next week did make me smile).

More fresh snow on my walk to work, April 14th, 2011 (that taxi is photo-bombing me!).

So if you consider winter as ‘months in which it snows’ our winter is September – May (with the odd freak snow or hail storm June – August). The worst part is definitely November – February though. We walk to work every day, no matter the temperature or the conditions, so I walk to work in -35C some weeks in the winter. Luckily, although we’re still getting snow now it at least isn’t that cold anymore. Calgary also gets these awesome warm winds in the winter that warm the whole city up 20C in a day, but that isn’t the point! If you want more Calgary climate data, here’s a handy little table on Wikipedia.

The point is that once I thought about it, it seemed silly to go somewhere warm while it was warm here. Why not actually make good on all those “next year I’m spending winter in the WARM!” whines I have, and do it for reals? We’re not certain exactly when we’re going, or for how long, but this year we will escape the grossness for at least a week! I expect to cry at the airport when we get back. We’re not planning on planning any of that trip until after the wedding though—my head might essplode. I’m already looking forward to it, and anticipating the joy of packing shorts into a suitcase while wearing two sweaters and my woolly socks with the thermostat cranked.

Did weather influence your honeymoon?

(Heh, I just realised that I did a whole post about Costa Rica with only snowy photos!)