Ho Ho Ho Hum

Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas. I'm just feeling crammed full of Christmas cheer after taking the girls to the Santa Claus parade today. It was a perfect day for it, not too cold, last year we froze our asses off. Robin, Tim and the girls and Hope, Aaron and the kids met us. Oh and Papa too. We had quite a gaggle of kids (8 of them) to enjoy the parade with. I love the Santa Claus parade and look forward to it every year and we've never been disappointed. Until this year. This year's parade was poorly organized. There was large gaps between some floats and some that were almost marching on top of each other. Then you'd have a section of the parade that was travelling at hyperspeed to make up the difference. It was chaotic.

One thing I love about the parade is hearing the bands play Christmas music. This year the number of bands was minimal. Or wait is there something below minimal? At least our favourite band was there, with our favourite drummer.



Hi Grandma Linda!!

There were some large scale regular parade participants missing this year. Dofasco's massive tin Christmas scene float for one. The highlight for me this year was the bridal party having their pictures done at the Scottish Rite across the street.



Look closely, did you notice their special guest? I'll give you a hint.... it's Spiderman. They had a guy dressed up in a Spiderman costume at their wedding. And a guy playing bagpipes. That's how you know it's high class right there.

Santa wasn't even the biggest hit of the parade. He kind of snuck up on us with little fan fare. Dora, Elmo, Cinderella, SpongeBob and Scooby Doo got the big applause. I think that pretty much says it right there. That Santa, the headliner, can't get any love at his own parade.

The best part of the day came after the parade. Robin, Tim and the girls came back to our place for some pizza. I love spending time with Robin (and her family). Robin's my girl. My BFF. We're like Oprah and Gayle, only white and not rich. Plus I like to think I don't annoy Robin half as much as Gayle annoys Oprah. So the grown ups got to talk and the kids played. The older girls argued over looked after Maya and there was no fighting, yelling, whining or crying coming from the toy room. Who could ask for a better night then that?



You can check out more pictures from today at flickr.