A walk with my little boy..........

While the others were playing soccer outside, Sam and I went for a walk around the front field..........he took his shovel and we walked through the long grass and looked at the flowers and dandelion clocks, the fences and grasses.......

Having fun with the camera................

Daddy's girl......................

Trinidad Soca Warriors

The Trinidad and Tobago soccer team made it into the World Cup this year for the first time....so the main theme of the parade was the T & T Soca Warriors!!!

My ex husband is from Trinidad, so my 3 oldest children are partly Trinidadian! I spent 12 years around the culture and loved it all....especially the foods.....Chana Doubles mmmmmm and chicken roti...............sugar cake......Sea Moss YUM!!! I think it's really important that my children grow up knowing about their Fathers country, the foods, music and traditions............I'm really glad we made it to the carnival.................and it was so nice standing next to some Trinidadians in the crowd and listening to their sing-song voices...I whispered to the children how the ladies sounded just like Grandma Patsy.................Christopher spent the whole parade dancing and was even out in the road dancing too.............Susie was just in awe of the costumes......so the girls want to make crowns and costumes one day this week................

The parade continues.................

Stop the music!!!!!!

I thought this was very cute......the little girl sat on the side of the band has her hands over her ears...after an hour or so of being sat there I think she's fed up with the noise!!!

Carnival time......................

Scenes from Cariwest 2006

Wining.......Trinidadian style.........

'Wining' pronounced 'Wine-en' or 'wine-in' is Trinidads version of dirty dancing......I thought these girls looked great doing it too....it made me laugh because I remember my ex and also my ex-mother in law trying to teach me to wine many a time! I have never been good at dancing.......they always laughed and said I was too white to wine lol!

Here comes the rain again..................

About 40 minutes before the parade was due to reach us, it started to rain and then the hail came down......luckily Lloyds office is over looking Jasper in the CWB building so we had shelter :) The storm didn't alst long anyway and soon the sun was shining and we were back outside to enjoy the music and costumes!

One good thing is that the rain left big puddle to keep Sam entertained while we waited....and I got a great shot of Laurie stood beside the puddle so you can see his reflection :)

Waiting for Cariwest

We went downtown today to watch the Edmonton Cariwest Carnival.......Edmontons version of the Trinidad Carnival....or rather their version of Notting Hill Carnival......it wasn't quite Notting HIll but we had fun.....in these pictures the children are patiently waiting for the carnival parade to start. We went into Second Cup in the CWB building and had coffee and the children had a cookie each...it was funny walking in as all the girls behind the counter knew Lloyd by name.....Mr Popular lol! And they were all very pleased to meet his children :) It was nice seeing all the staff dressed up in West Indian costume!

An update on my Aunt

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and messages about my Aunty Doreen. I just got off the phone from my Dad and there is no change yet.....my Aunt is still unconscious and hasn't woken up.......they hope to know more tomorrow.....but it doesn't look good as they are all being told its very serious.

I'll update when I know more.

Thanks again.