cold!!

its definately winter. at least the first 9 days of winter were sunny so as long as i had lots of layers on i could stay warm in the sun. today i was planning on going out to take pictures around the area but the gray skys just kept getting darker throughout the day. i went for a quick ride up to some shops (only about a 6km circuit)and it was FREEZING! when i got down to barkley square i discovered where everyone was spending their day to aviod the cold. i just went into kmart to grab something quickly and discovered multiple checkouts open all with lines across the main isle behind them. i went over to safeway just to grab a couple things so can make an african sweet potato and peanut stew (the perfect cold weather dinner). me and about half a dozen other people were hunting around the checkout counters for baskets. i should have taken that as a sign to go to a small independant store in the cold outside but i didn't. i walked around and got my stuff only to find that when i finished, so had everyone else who had taken one of the baskets and there was only 3 checkouts open. lines were winding around and down isles. i got lucky though and after a few minutes of standing in line and still being several people from the front a checkout opened near me and i ended up 2nd in line (and got to get back out into the cold sooner). it would be good if we got some rain. not that i like rain at all (except big summer lighting storms) but we really do need it. i think the last time we had a good rain was about a month ago!!