Good to know I'm not just imagining the cold!

Sno-cone anyone? Strawberry, blue raspberry, or orange? My favorite was always blue raspberry but I always disliked the fact that my lips looked like they were decomposing after eating this treat. In Japan they call sno-cones "kakigori."

It's really cold in Japan. Record low temperatures have been set in December. Some the lowest in 50 years! Wowow. The upside? Spending on heating is up, therefore it's really helping stimulate the economy. Ha ha. Leave it to Mother Nature to spur the economy into action.

(Thanks to Hakim for emailing me this picture for my blog. It is Tsunan-city in Niigata Japan...much farther north than around the GTA...no, not greater Toronto area...it is the greater Tokyo area.)