Halloween

I know that this is a little late, but I still think that I should tell you about Halloween. This year, I went as a jellyfish and Renée as Charlie Chaplin. She was going to go with her friend Marie as Dupont and Dupond, but Marie was sick all week and couldn't come. We celebrated with our neighbors Sauvanne and Arianne and their parents Steven and Kirsten. We ate buzzard, liver and newt hearts before stuffing ourselvs with candy. The jellyfish is a little windswept in this picture, but still looking good.

What to do with paper

This weekend, Renée, mom and I engaged in various activities, but our main shopping expedition was to the Japanese Paper Place. The reason for this was their annual «create your own snack bag» event, where you get your pick on all their paper scraps and cram them into a small plastic bag for five dollars. the only condition is that you must be able to then close it. Of course, when confronted with such a bargain, we went crazy an now have nearly a year's supply
of lovely Japanese paper. Our question now is : what to do with it?

Thanksgiving

To celebrate Thanksgiving, the Biders in general have a very particular tradition. For as far as I can remember, we have always gone up to the Laurentians in the old house there. This year was no exception. We met up with all the other cousins and, like always, had a good time. We hiked by The Creek and Papy's House. As usual, we only had a general idea of where we were going, but at least we made it back in time for turkey. On one of these hikes, Grandma and Grandpa's dog Toby, a very peculiar beast, had a slight misunderstanding with a porcupine. He came back with quills in his chin, poor thing. after dinner, we played kick-the-can in the dark.

Tonight, we celebrate thanksgiving again since we were a day early last time.

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche is a very popular arts festival here in T.O. Of course, Renée, Mom, Dad and I don't stay up all night, but many people do. We roamed around the streets of downtown Toronto only until 11:30 this weekend, but we are still exhausted! These were the highlights.

-Mom and I learned the Charleston and the Lindy hop at the Toronto Reference Library;
-We admired the Rabbit Balloon, a gigantic silver bunny created by Jeff Koons, in the Eaton Center;
-Were blinded by the word «Wind» written in light bulbs and suspended between the two buildings at City Hall
-Listened to an «audio parade» by Anita Hamilton;
-Peeped into a laundromat kaleidoscope by Nika Mistruzzi.

I must catch up on lost sleep now, good night!

Racing

The big sailing event of the year is, no doubt, the TSCC's race around the island. This was my first year competing. We did not exactly go around the Toronto island, but along it's side. I steered on the way back while dad controlled the spinnaker(large sail in the front, good for when the wind is behind you). Dad and I finished 7th out of 11 in our category. The picture is the view from the front of our Waferer? Wafer? Wefre? Anyway, our boat.

Save the sea turtles!

Last weekend, Sauvanne, Arianne, Renée and I organized a yard sale of most of our old toys and things. All the profits went to the Canadian Sea turtle network to help protect the Leatherback sea turtles. After sitting outside for five and a half hours, we managed to raise around 230$ for our cause. We are getting together this week to write to the organisation and send them the cheque!

This picture is a detail from our poster.

Air show

We are lucky to have our green roof for many reasons. One of them is because it is straight under the path of the planes during the Air show. Sitting on our lawn chairs with our neighbors Sauvanne and Arianne. Some F-18 jets got so close, we could see the writing on them. I do not have pictures of them, sadly, but here are a few good ones. We have been to the Shack and found a neat variety of creepy-crawlies like this caterpillar and this Dragonfly larva. School has started and Pictures will follow.