Having finished my first semester at UBC, I returned to my hometown of Ottawa to visit my family. I hadn’t seen them since September except over Skype and Facetime, so it was amazing to get back and visit over the holidays. Admittedly, the snowfall in Vancouver caused all sorts of flight delays, so I arrived home some 7 hours later than I should have (and missing a few pieces of luggage) but that all got sorted out the next day. In any case, going from the balmy 7 degrees Celsius that Vancouver enjoys into Ottawa’s -26 degrees blizzard was a bit of an abrupt change, and I loved it. Here's a quick shot of the river at the cottage:
Having grown up in a city where it snows four or five months of the year, it’s been odd, to say the least, to be living in such a different climate where a centimeter or two of the fluffy goodness is considered a heavy storm. All told, my trip home was a welcome respite from being away for so long.
Last picture of Ottawa I took, sorry for the snapchat overlays!
I returned to Vancouver (wait, sorry Nick, to Burnaby) at the end of December, spending a night over at 
In case anybody's wondering, these were taken just to the side of the lift at Crystal.