I Walked on Ice

I just came back from my dentist today. As much as I wanted to stay at home, away from the cold, I had a dentist appointment that I had to attend in the morning. As I walked out my apartement, what I saw immediately was the snow had gone hard and it's not as beautiful as it looked yesterday. When it was snowing yesterday, the snow was really soft, flaky and easy to walk. This morning the flakes changed to this hard ice, something like the ice in ice skating rinks but with uneven surface. If you have ice skated before then you know how very slippery it is to walk the rink with normal shoes. Now imagine the skating rink is moved to road pavements and add the uneven surface to them. If you're not careful enough your backside could easily hit the ground. So you can imagine how hard it is to walk it. The normally ten minutes walk took me about half hour to walk. And along the way, I almost fell down a couple of times.

I'm still learning about the different types of ice after snow. Beside the hard ice there were two other types that I came across today such as the ice slush and ice crust. If you ask me which one is better I'd probably have a hard time answering because I prefer none. The ice slush is like, you know, slush. It's watery and wet, and when mixed with the debris of the roads it looks kind of brownishy and it does not look pretty at all. The ice crust probably is safer to walk as it's not as slippery as the hard ice and it's not as wet as the slush. But as I said before I prefer none. Anyway, I hope I'm not boring you with the different types of snow. I just find it fascinating learning about this new stuff.

The road to my dentist - I was resting here and taking photo at the same time :)