Nearly made it, but not quite!
The weather seems to be improving, and the big thaw underway, so we decided to venture back towards home to see if we could actually get to the house. It has been two months since we were last home after all…
The good news is that the roads are gradually clearing, although the roads around home are still pretty poor. As a result, we actually made it to within a 100 yards of home today! But even being this close to home was not quite enough as we could not get the car onto the driveway and there was nowhere nearby where we could park the car safely. The car still skidded and slid on the snow as Lyn tried her best to get to the house so we decided to leave it another day. We did manage to drop off one of our suitcases and a few items by walking them from the car to the house but, alas, ultimately it is another night away from home. Mind you, it’s great to be enjoying some home-cooking and delicious food (thanks Ann!) 
To help ease the burden and disappointment of not yet being able to get home, we spent a little time shopping at a local retail outlet. Lyn bought many items of clothing (which look great) and I bought a few items, too. In among the tubs of hot chocolate and t-shirts I treated myself to a pair of trainers, and then another pair of trainers (as seen below).
I also treated myself to a brand new Limited Edition (Forza 3) Xbox 360 Super Elite games console. This is to replace my older (er, dead) Xbox 360 that I’ve had since the original release day all those years go. The new console has the 250GB drive and uses the Jasper chipset, which is allegedly much better and less prone to RROD. We shall see. As soon as I get home I’ll be setting it all up (although I need to request a data migration kit from Microsoft so that I can transfer the data from my old console’s hard drive to my new one). I also bought Halo ODST as I’m a bit of a Halo fan I’m afraid…
We also bought Wii Sports Resort for the Nintendo Wii (with Wii Motion Plus). Retail therapy does have it’s place it would seem.