Cannington Dogsled Races and Winter Carnival

Today, we visited Cannington.  Yup.  Cannington.  Don't know where that is?  I didn't either, before today.  It's about 87.6 km out of Richmond Hill.  We stayed at a friend's house in Beaverton, and then went with them to the dogsled races today.  Except that the dogsled racing part was canceled due to lack of snow.  As Chris (not my brother) said, "This has the potential of being the most boring Winter Carnival ever."  Yup.  Disappointment!  We wandered around, looking at Metis crafts, dog collars and igloos.  3 of our group went on a dogsled ride, for $2 each.  They really know how to hit people up for money!

When transporting the dogs, they use an add-on for a pick-up truck.  They look like the trucks the dog-catchers use.  6 cells that open on the side, and another 6 on the other side. 

But guess what!  They fit 2 dogs in each cell!  The idea is that they don't move around during transport.

A few games that were happening at various places around the event were: Toilet Seat Toss, the Bigfoot Challenge, and the Tater Toss.  Yeah.  We tried them all!  Toilet Seat Toss was good, clean fun!  : )  It was really just horse-shoes with a toilet seat. 

Bigfoot Challenge had two ski-like boards attached to your feet, and with a team of 2 other people try and navigate an obstacle-free field.  Simple, right?  My team's leader ended up in a face-plant in the snow. 

Tater Toss was a large slingshot that you load with a potato, then let fire at a target.  Pretty fun!

If you think this is stupid (which it kind of is, to a certain extent), how stupid do you think I am?  You have no right to laugh at me!

Ice sculptures!

Just a few thoughts from the day:
Broomball: Hockey for wimps
Lime Perrier: It's like drinking liquid hand sanitizer
Clodhoppers: Amazing!  (I did that for you, Michelle!)
Most kitchen smoke hoods (I have a few specific ones in mind!):  Your home's built in "cone of silence"
How do you get turtle shells, without the turtle?:  They strip.  I think.  Or so I've been told!


L'chiam,

-Sarah Elizabeth
Actually unaffordable, but still true

Friends and Ice Cream and Mad Gab

So here I am, sitting on the floor with some friends, up in the middle of no-where, and getting ready to spend the day standing in the snow, waiting for dogs to race past. 

Actually, yes, but with some perks.  Eating chocolate ice cream, sitting near a fireplace, with some caramel tea at hand.  Yes, caramel tea!  And you might say, "Sarah, how do you get caramel tea?" or "What does caramel tea taste like?"  a) You get caramel tea by putting caramel chunks in regular green loose leaf tea.  Or you can flavour it extra by putting in different flavours of tea leaf.  b) Caramel tea tastes exactly how it sounds.  Tea with caramel in it.  And yes, it tastes soooooo good! 

My brothers pulled out a game that they found in the game room here in our friends house, called "Mad Gab".  A really fun game, and so interesting!  The way the game goes is that one person pulls a card out and the panel of gamers opposite them read the card and figure out what the word is on the card.  Sounds simple, right?  Not really.  What is this?  "Button Hen Knee of Hint".  Wow!  Ok, since you guys are so good at this game, lets get harder.  (My Mum loves this game!)
"Haste Robber Heap Hatch". 
"Hit Saw Lame Hissed Redo Me".   
"Ape Lay Onwards"
"Star Tin Tool Who Sun-up"
"Wheel Yum Air Ream He"

I'll give you the answers later.  This is a game that really gets your brain moving.  I rate it #2, after "Malarky", which is the player just making up lies to win.  That is my kind of game! 

Which leads me to a question:  What is an Eskimo kiss?  I've heard of a movie-star kiss, and an alfalfa kiss, but an Eskimo kiss???  Is is like an ice cream treat?  Or a new kind of Hershey kiss?  Enlighten me please!! 

So I told you I'm sitting in a friend's house in Beaverton.  They have a train track behind their house (or in-front, depending of which side you consider the front), and guess what!!  The house shakes as the train goes by!  Very disconcerting. 

Rick Mercer quote:  "Mennonites: A savage hill people bent on slicing down Canada's beautiful forests to turn into affordable but beautiful furniture." 


-Sarah
Affordable, but true