Winterlude

This past Saturday some friends invited us to join them for a little winter fun in the capital. Winterlude is an annual winter festival featuring ice and snow sculptures, skating on the canal, playgrounds made of snow, tubing, kiddie skiing, food, etc. It is the polar (haha:) opposite of the festivals we grew up with which often revolved around roasting summer temperatures!

This was the 'welcoming' sculpture on the Quebec side of the river.

(snowboarders and pine trees carved into a massive snowbank)

Can't go without the self portrait....

Each province was represented by a snow sculptor carved by one of their 'own' artists. I can't remember which province this one was, but it certainly was a popular for the whole of Canada! Hockey Skates!

I was kinda of partial to this one...

This was Ontario's. ( A man ice fishing for a very unwilling fish)

We did get out and skate for a bit on the canal. Tons of people! Winterlude is a three week festival, but it weekends are pretty busy!

An ice bench. There were many of them. I had to try it out.

Rodger's Mobil sponsored a booth and did a little advertising by freezing their products in ice blocks. No shoplifting at all.

One of the massive ice sculptures.

This is where the ice comes from. Boxes. I really do hope it is made in Canada!

The ice/snow slides.

Tess and Boaz headed down...

The line to get on the really long slide....

And the snow maze. It was the perfect height. Now I did take some pics of Bert, but he did the culling and I can't find any of them.

Just About Valentine's Day

We had a SFRC Girls Meeting here at the house on Saturday. Valentine's cards were turned out by the dozens. They were making them to give to the residents of a local nursing home. With some paper, scissors, crayons, string, and glue they set to work.

I love to see what they come up with when making their crafts. I usually have some ideas for them it they get stuck, but that doesn't really happen!

One of them asked for a pencil during the assembly. I rummaged around and came up with this one. Then I rather thoughtlessly remarked that it was one I had used in school. There were a lot of "Wooah's, Woooow's, etc" in response to that. I had to laugh cause even though it has only been ten years since I graduated, that is how old some of the girls are!

After a closer look, I am pretty sure that while I did use it in school, it might have been an oldie from before that!

These sweet little cards came in the mail from James and Ellie. They had a little craft time of their own out at Grandma's house.

Happy Valentine's Day!