parade & fireworks

Today was the official opening of the Waterfront festival. It was the parade which officially starts it all. After the parade they have the ethnic food tents, lots of vendors selling things, and the fireworks. There are also lots of kids things the rides, children's character shows and that sort of stuff. For the adults they have lots of ethnic dance, music and those sorts of things going on.

So tonight we went again! First the parade. Colleen Tyson's godmother came out for supper because Scott was away and we enjoyed the night with her. Daddy was to tired to join us and spent the night home in peace and quiet!

So on to the parade!

This was the sea cadets from Kingston...

And this is the Belleville Shriners. They do lots for the disabled children in the Quinte area.

Tyson waiting ever so patiently watching for someone or something he likes!

Oh wait a second...who is that lady on the far side of that banner....

"IT"S NANNY!!"

And here are some Canadian soldiers.

I didn't take pictures of the Budweiser girls which was much to Darin's disappointment. I'll just tell you though the one girls left very little to the imagination!

After the parade we walked down to Zwick's island for some ethnic snacks. We also went through the vendor tents. We got some bedazzles for our crocks. Dalton loves them, I love my little Tim Horton's one. We got one for Colleen too!

We enjoyed some Dutch donuts and Dalton had an ice cone. We played a couple of games and then wandered around the park until it was time for the fireworks. They were excellent. We had the best seats. We sat directly under them. We laid on the grass and they were right over our head! What a show we know where to sit next year! I remembered to turn the flash off on my camera so the pictures actually turned out. Sort of! The whole evening was a good time! These fireworks are my favorite! This is when my batteries in my camera went dead! Isn't that always the way!

And then we packed up and came home....

Thanks Colleen for the best night ever! We had tons of fun!

Date nite with Nan'

Dalton asked me to use Nan's favorite colour to tell you what happened tonight.

On Monday night's Poppa goes golfing. So Nan decided that she was going to surprise Dalton after karate.
Dalton went home with Terry & Steph for a bit after karate. He didn't know who was getting him from there of what was going to happen afterwards. He was surprised to see nan. Even more surprised when she took the boys out to Montana's for supper. They had a great time and then came home and got all ready for bed before Daddy got home from work.
Dalton said he had a great time with "Just Nan". He misses time with Nanny & Poppa since he doesn't go there for babysitting anymore. He is looking forward to the summer and going to their trailer.
Dalton said he had a great "DATE" with Nan!

Thanks Nanny!!!
We love you!!

Literacy night.....

Well tonight was Literacy night at Dalton's school. His school has the best reading curriculum of all the schools in Hastings county. I found out tonight that Dalton ready doesn't like to read he just does it for me. He does it quite well too I might add.
Anyway, I was working tonight and I couldn't go with him. So Angela stayed at the house with Tyson and Nanny & Poppa came out to go to Literacy night with Dalton. All while Mom & Dad were at work. Nanny was looking forward to it and so was Dalton. All excited this morning and had to call Nan so she wouldn't forget all about it! Nan would never but anyway....
Apparently they were asking why the kids like to read and Dalton said " I don't like to read I just do it because my Mom thinks I do, don't tell her" or something like that. Kids ya never know what they are going to say. So I laughed.
They made a book, ate cookies, played in the computer room, made a bookmark ( which Dalton made for Nanny) and had some door prizes. Dalton won the last one. $ 10.00 at a book store, as you can imagine from the last comment, the last thing he wants to buy is a book!!

Thanks to everyone for making the kids night...
NANNY, POPPA, and Aunite Angeno.... We love you!