Went out to Niagara Falls today as I'd promised Nefarious that we'd go in the tunnels behind the falls, and Caitlin wanted to visit her mother and go to the butterfly conservatory… I really love the Falls in the cold weather a lot more than in the summer (other than I always enjoy the Maid of the Mist, but it doesn't run in the winter).
I went to the park today with Nefarious and after kicking her boots off from the swings, she stomped around the park in her bare feet for about ten minutes before putting them back on… Haha… I remember when I was a kid, my brother and my favorite spring game was playing in the creek behind the barn. The top half would be frozen, and the bottom part was open (that is, there was still ice on the top half of the creek, and the bottom was completely thawed). We'd run along the frozen part with our sleds, and then right before it turned into water, jump on the sleds, and skip along the water, eventually sink into it… Totally soaked, sitting in icy water, over and over. So I'm not too concerned.
We all did a bunch of painting as well… You can see what I'm working on below, and I posted a couple closeups of the progress on my art blog as well. Well, now Nefarious is in bed, and Caitlin has gone out with her friends, so I have an evening of trying to complete my far-too-difficult mission of getting five stars on every song on Rock Band on expert.
I watched this video of an elephant painting a “self portrait“. It's really quite something — if you don't have patience, skip to the end to see the image.
Not sure where I'm going to take this, I was just killing time…
…as in high in the air.
I've been there way too many times, but holy crap is the office impressive that I had a meeting in today. It's like the top eleven stories of a major skyscraper, with a giant double spiral staircase running through the whole thing and the second largest private art collection in Canada. Right out of Devil's Advocate or something… Maybe I should have become a lawyer? I do remember being very impressed with the view from my uncle's firm when I was a kid (one of the big Bay Street towers)…
So I know that my ice age entry from a few days ago is pretty shady science, but on a “misinterpreting short term chaos for long term trends” line of thinking, it's really something to see it still pouring snow here at the end of March. I mean, I know that when I was a kid it started snowing on Halloween, and would generally be warm enough for my brother and his friends to stomp through the swamp at the end April for his birthday, so I shouldn't be surprised at this length of winter, but it seems like that's a thing of the past. Nice to see it isn't.
