"Just ask Santa for a new camera, Al!"
Big night last night in downtown Kingston. I skipped last years after spending the year before in the rain. Good thing I did go as we saw the best parade thing ever - sheep being herded by border collies. Still wondering about the camera but at least it has lasted a year - more than 4 months like the little Sony ones we had been working through at an insane pace.
There was also soldiers in the streets of Canada and knights, too. By this point I was starting to complain and getting elbows in ribs. It was just a few degrees shy of comfortable out for the evening but then I recalled I had stowed away "the MEC hat that climbed Everest" and once on my head sweated as my back chilled. [Yes, I know, I may go on but at least I am not "ironic".]
Gotta be pipers and we were out with a piper and have the kids well trained to shout "Scotland the Brave!" at the right moment. You should shut up about your own opinions about the cold when you are watching the kilties go by.
Comments
gr - November 19, 2006 11:07 am
Nice touch, holiday lights on a snowplow.
Gordo - November 19, 2006 1:07 pm
That's a brand-spanking <b>new</b> snowplow, Gary. It will never look as good, again.
We were a couple of blocks West of you at Montreal Street, Al. We all had a grand time, too.
gr - November 19, 2006 1:32 pm
Less than a week, men, KSPC or some smaller version of same.
Matt Fletcher - November 19, 2006 2:04 pm
Your photos seem to indicate you were at Princess and King, while I was just one block up at Princess and Wellington. However, my girlfriend and I, not having little ones to entertain, left for dinner before the end causing us to miss the border collie display.
Alan - November 19, 2006 2:22 pm
My recollection that the sheep were fairly early on. They were followed by two figures, one a lady who was doing all the whistling and directing and the other a man in horns and a tail playing an accordion.
Gordo - November 19, 2006 3:12 pm
The lady directing the dogs was Amanda Milliken, our MP's sister and Border Collie breeder.
Mike - November 19, 2006 4:50 pm
Hey, go easy on your camera, those shots look fine and proper.
The parade in Halifax was great too.
Mike - November 19, 2006 4:51 pm
Our knights were on foot.
cm - November 19, 2006 6:38 pm
I came across the Toronto parade on my way to the museum but all I saw was the Fire Services Pipes and Drums. Which is all you need, really.
T-Bo - November 19, 2006 8:53 pm
Now I feel bad. Had I known that Kingston was holding its Christmas parade last night, I would have been there, oh yeah.
With my work finally done for fall (all the teams have been bounced) and a good jump on my pre-winter writery, I wrangled some vacation starting this week (Tues. or Wed.) into next, and with a good hunk of my holiday shopping also done am in a Yuletide state of mind. My last such parade was in Montreal a few years back, and took me by pleasant surprise. I was there for the hockey, and the beer.
And what is this talk of KSPC? Is there a hazing involved? I know that the hat sounds mighty cool, indeed...
Alan - November 19, 2006 9:34 pm
I can't talk now. It's seconds left in the third quarter of the Grey Cup and there is only a five point lead. That hat, though, is my spring pressie to me.