Mastodawn

Yesterday my partner and kids visited the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, and they were all delighted by the penguins and huskies. They were less impressed by the "cold room" (which was -8C and had fans that also blow wind at 40km/hr, they have parkas you can borrow...)

Saskatchewan has completely changed our standards for cold weather! My 9yo: "It didn't even freeze my boogers! That's not cold!" My partner: "It was nice dog walking weather."

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Emelia/Emi

@sundogplanets -8c is somewhat colder than what we usually get here (thanks to being a coastal city) but further inland that's "an average winter day" and we don't get particularly harsh weather here outside of the occasional "shitloads of snow"... (Though this year it got cold AF for a good stretch, down to -25C in some areas, which is very firmly "long johns or snow pants" territory, IMO)