lol I lived in Canada for 6 years. It snowed & was freezing for 6-8 months of the year. Believe it or not, although I missed the Aussie weather after that long, there is plenty to do in the cold/snow. Snowboarding, tubing, skiing, hot springs...there is nothing like waking up on xmas morning to snowflakes falling. For a girl from Oz, that stayed special each & every year. And alot of these places have indoor theme parks, huge on indoor rockclimbing & ice hockey too.
Its fun, better than England, where it didn't snow, it just rained constantly & was generally fckn miserable for most of winter. lol
Its a nice change of pace. And winter & Autum are the kind of spectacular, that we don't get here in Australia. Canada in Autum (Fall) was really one of the most beautiful sights I'd ever seen.
Here in Brisbane, we get summer & winter. And our winter is like Canada's summer lol Its nice to experience what the seasons are like in different parts of the world.
After 12 years, it was really so nice to come home though
My second day back in Oz, we were at Noosa. Sophie was 2 and was carried out into the surf by my brother & was wide eye'd & incredulous at the crashing waves...it was a beautiful moment. There really is nowhere quite like home.