Yesterday Sox’s dad was in town, and we did a dog walk with his dog as well. Yoshi was acting very strangely, and I ended up having to break off from the group, and walk Yoshi by himself. I had my camera with me, so I snapped a few shots along the way.
The rest of the pics are here.
Lots of people are now sporting LED Christmas lights and this is due to energy concerns. Anything easy that can help the environment is great in my books.
My big question is those inflatable, light up deals that had snow blowing inside. Surely those must suck back the electricity. How can they not? Turn on your vacuum for a few hours, and shine a spotlight on it. Would you do that in your house? Probably not, but many people do this every night over the Christmas season with these things. Some of them are huge, and very elaborate.
For many reasons, we won’t own one of those , but one of them is the fact that I just can’t believe they are energy efficient.
At the light up, after our hot chocolate trip, we headed back to Archie Browning arena to see what was going on. We saw that Daisy from Island Farms was there, and her assistant was handing out balloons to the kids.
We decided to get one for Sprout.
When Sox walked up the assistant lady denied us. She said some ridiculous thing that they were stopping handing them out, and that the lady in red was the last person. The lady in red was in her 70’s.
WTF?? Sox and I were angry and walked away a little confused. An elderly lady could get a balloon for her walker, but we couldn’t get one for Sprout? That makes no sense.
Then we turned around and saw they were still handing the balloons out to the kids. We were tempted to go back and get one, but then decided that it wasn’t worth it.
I don’t know what this assistant lady was thinking. It was so bizarre. Denying our son a balloon because they wanted to stop handing them out ?? And telling us they were stopping handing them out?? Why not just say they had run out? People are weird, but public facing people representing a company to children definitely shouldn’t be.
Sox and I still might right an email to Island Farms regarding this. In retrospect it seems petty but it still rubbed us the wrong way.
The lineups for hotdogs and hot chocolate was incredibly long. The I saw someone walk by with a Serious Coffee cup and remembered there was a new location close by. We headed over for some delicious hot chocolate which we enjoyed very much. We headed back to the festivities to see what else was going on.
Overall, it was a good time. There was one weird incident though, which I will detail in a subsequent post.
Fun night.
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In the last couple days I have seen some ads for getting an iPhone in Canada. I went to the website,and did a little reading. Hah, someone has set up a company that is importing iPhones, that must have been hacked. No fully carrier supported phone provider would have a quote
“We’ll ship you and iPhone that’s ready to go and is LEGAL to be used in Canada. Lean more”
(no that is not a typo).
The site looks pretty lame by Apple standards with a few typos and inconsistencies. There are no big logos for any of the carriers, and they mention these phones will work on any GSM network. It smacks of a scam to me. It may be on the up and up, but this really seems odd.
Fastforward a few weeks and it was time to restock. A bit more investigation, and I was told that Platys are pretty hardy, and so are Guppies. I got two Platys, and 2 Tequila Sunrise Guppies.
The Platys require a lightly salted tank, which is something I haven’t done before. I think I mixed it correctly, but I am not totally sure. So far the fish seem fine.
One Guppy has died already. It started looking a little shady in a little under 24 hours after arriving home. I like the fish tank, but it sure isn’t as stable as I would like.
Snow day! First snow of the year. I managed to sneak in a walk with Yoshi at the park before any errands needed to be done. It was nice. There were lots of other people out, and lots of other dogs too. The weather was actually nice out. It was nippy, but not too cold, and the wind hadn’t picked up yet.
Yoshi loves snow too. It wasn’t deep enough for him to do his high speed run and snow scoop, but he did stop to take a few nibbles of the white stuff.
All the posts are in the Maui 2007 category.
Here they are in chronological order.