Street Cleaning

They are cleaning my street. How hilarious is that?? It is November 20 - they are cleaning the cedar needles of the street. This seems very funny to me.

We had a great weekend. Saturday day we divided and conquered - Toria & I showed our heritage by attending the Sons of Norway Christmas Craft Sale where we bought some yummy baking. Meanwhile, the boys went and dumped another load of cedar needles at the landfill. I think Todd said they dumped about 510lbs (in addition to the 374lbs I singlehandedly shoveled)!

Saturday night - ta da - was the Santa Lights Parade and we had a starring role. The Beavers were at the end of the show followed only by Jolly Old Saint Nick!. The estimate I heard was that there was 40,000 people watching on the parade route plus those that watched it live on TV. AND if anyone has it taped we'd love to see it. Apparently there was a close up of Toria and they called her a "Scouter in training".

The funniest part was after the parade at the Santa Party. Island Farms (the local major dairy) was giving out free drinks. We each took a cup and finished our drink. Tomas goes "Dad, that was the baddest milk I've ever tasted!"... It was the yummiest Eggnog, though!

The kids had their picture taken with Santa (for free), Toria had her face painted and we were one name away from winning a $60 gift certificate for Munro's Bookstore (Carmen Margolis won it - when we heard them call "Carmen" we were so excited - not so thrilled when they taked on the "Margolis" part).

Sunday, Uncle Glenn arrived and we did the tourist thing to Goldstream Park where we watched the Salmon Run. The Salmon spawning was very neat but there are ALOT of dead salmon everywhere. It was a little gross except for my kids who kept asking to take pictures of the dead salmon especially those where the birds had eaten the eyes. Oh yah.

I want to go and check out the clean street. Ciao 4 now.