Today, the country ground to a halt.
Schools were closed. Roads made impassable. Even a local ski field stayed shut.
The reason: Snow. Now, for a Canadian, the paltry amount on the ground was laughably small. In Wanaka, for instance, we had a dusting of barely two cm coating the grass. Nonetheless, it crippled most of the country.
I would post a picture here, but I can't. As you may have read on Facebook, my cameras are now no longer in my posession thanks to some petty thief (or thieves) that decided to pay my apartment a visit the other night.
It is partly my fault. After having locked myself out of the house once, and learning that many people around time leave their doors unlocked cause it's such a safe town, I had grown complacent about securing the door. Evidently, Friday evening was one of the unfortunate times I neglected to turn the key on my way out, and some douchenozzle(s) benefitted from my negligence.
Along with my cameras, the stellar human being(s) also took my external hard drive, my e-reader, i-pod, a DVD collection (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 5), some cash, (ironically) a bible, and, most devastatingly, my passport.
Ugh.
I'm hopeful that my travel insurance will cover at least some of the taken items, and there's not much I can do now after the fact. It was an expensive lesson that, despite living in a small, safe town where many people don't lock their doors, I should do so nonetheless. So now, with only a short month to go I have to sort out my documents. It's especially annoying since without a passport, I can't book any flights, and therefore can't really plan my life.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Nay, invited.
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