Winter Carnival

This weekend we went up to see the Vernon Winter Carnival which runs for a week with a parade at the weekend, snow + ice scuplting, balloon races etc etc.


I persuaded Mr R to cart me up to Vernon to watch the parade...um, its enthusiastic but not a patch on Ryde Carnival, especially that year there was a red Daihatsu jeep with paw prints and 3 girls in thigh high boots in the back.....

...Shaun might join the riding display team next year...!

And its good to see that children are properly controlled in Canada! I think these were the free-range, organic variety...

And what parade would be complete without our very own 'nessie' - the Ogopogo - who is supposed to live in the bottom of Lake Okanagan but is not adverse to sautering down Vernon High Street when the occassion demands it...!