Beach Jazz Festival day 1

Yesterday was the first day of the street festival, it's where they shut down a 2 km (1 1/4 mile) stretch of Queen Street East, and have bands preforming at various spots along the street. Daddy's favorites are the Big Bands (he likes some of the music from the World War 2 era), like Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

Heading down to the festival we had our very own private public transit bus, which was really neat.

But there was much more interesting things to see too, like we saw a guy that had a bird with him, it wasn't a type of bird I had seen before, I think daddy called it a Pair of Keets or something like that. Well, that bird was just as trained as I was, it was comfortable being out in the big crowds just like I am.

Now for the really odd thing that we happened across (and I have a picture to prove it), we were leaving the festival and decided to get a picture of me on a fire truck. This is where what is called a happy accident happened, six girls all dressed the same came along to take pictures with the same fire truck. Well these girls were dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

Here I am by myself on the fender of the fire truck

And here I am with the Dorothies

Everyone agrees I make a much better (and cuter) Toto then some dumb dog, I need to get myself an agent.

To hot for most bunnies

But I'm not just any bunny, I've got a really smart daddy. Sure we have the cool box at home, and there are places that have cool boxes, there are even buses and trains that have cool boxes. It's the in between that we have problems with. So, daddy has outfitted my stroller to keep me as cool as possible when we are outside.

the bottom of the pee pad goes first

Then the ceramic tile

Then the stroller floor

The pee pad gets clipped in place

This is what it looks like when it's all assembled

This is what it looks like when it's in my stroller

Then this bamboo mat goes over that to keep me and the pee pad separate

My electric fan

All assembled and ready to go on an adventure

I have my frozen water bottle, salad, and fan

 Daddy puts all that together to keep me comfortable when we go out, and lately it has been icky outside.

After running into several problems with people, and it being their word against ours. Well daddy has found a solution to that problem, and it's a tech device.

The tech solution

hidden so it goes unnoticed

This is a spy video camera

See the dot in the center, that's the lens.

Every time we go into a store we start recording just in case we run into trouble, when we get home we check the video then erase it if there are no problems.

Grandmas new truck

A couple of weeks ago grandma's car got broken into and the bad guys broke things that make it drive. So the people that protect cars and stuff said that it would be to expensive to repair her car, instead they gave her the money to get a new car.

Daddy just corrected me, it's not a "car", it's an SUV. It's a vehicle that moves and goes places.

2004 Ford Escape

According to daddy Grandma's "SUV" is a 2004 Ford Escape, in dark green with 'sparkles'. I can't wait to be able to ride in it, daddy says my car seat should fit better in the new SUV then it did in the old car. My car seat is supposed to have headrests for the back and front seats, Grandma's old car only had headrests in the front, so it meant that daddy had to use dozens of bungee cords to hold it in place.
Daddy says that we may get to ride in it on Monday, and not to worry, daddy will take MILLIONS of pictures both of the truck and of me in it.

Birthday greeting to a special boy

My cousin is turning 7 years old tomorrow, and me and daddy got him an awesome toy, it's a safe that you put together. It will be useful to him this time next year when his little brother is walking around, and getting into things, he'll be able keep his things safe.

Right now we're on the bus heading to great-grandma's house to fix her computer, and to drop off my cousins birthday card that daddy made.

The card has a bunny in a tuxedo, and he's saying "The names Bunny, James Bunny", because he is into the spy thing, the safe is also spy related.

Lets go AAAARRRRRGGGGGOOOOOOS

Yesterday me and daddy went to see our first football game, and we had so much fun, even if it was a little wet getting there.

I got to take the big train to get there, I like taking that train over the subway. Once we were downtown we had to navigate our way over to the "dome" and find the gate to get in. That's when I discovered, with great delight, that the armed forces were going to be there to help with the opening ceremonies, more on that a little later.

You might remember that daddy was going to redo my cape, well yesterday he finished it. So now for the big unveiling.

My new Sun-Em cape

 AND I even have my first action figure, Sun-Em's cousin Kal-El.

Okay. now on to the football game. Like I said we saw a LOT of soldiers outside, but we weren't sure what was going to happen. First we had to actually get inside, which was more of a challenge then it needed to be. We met with the nice lady from Fan services named Lisa Simons, who helped smooth things over with security, that was one problem solved. The next problem came when they tried to scan the ticket we worked so hard to get, there scanner thingy wouldn't accept it, a few other people had the same trouble with their tickets, not to worry though, we still got in.

Then the hunt for our seat started, we had to go halfway around the level to get to it, but it was a good seat. Daddy got me some more Argos stuff, a jersey and a football.

My new Argos jersey, makes me the cutest fan EVER

The team is stretching

More stretching

The field, which can be converted into a baseball field by moving the seats

They call this the "Jumbotron" the windows beside it is one floor of the hotel

The evil Hamilton Tiger Cats, the traditional rivals of the Argos

Under that banner are more seats

The special football of the three I've got

Soldiers

A giant inflatable football player.

 This inflatable football player is over by the area where the visitors dressing rooms are, so the players have to go right beside it.

Cheerleaders, need I say more?

The soldiers were there to unfurl a giant Canadian flag, and the combined band of the armed forces was there to play the national anthem, and parade the Grey Cup onto the field.

The final score for the game Toronto Argos 39 Hamilton Tiger Cats 34.

On the way home everyone we ran across was giving daddy high fives when they saw me in my jersey. And even diehard Ti-Cat fans agreed I was the cutest Argo fan EVER!!!

This is an inflatable noise maker, but I put a hole in this one, so it's on the wall

This is what the noise maker is supposed to look like.

A souvenir cup

Joey Bats (Jose Bautista), is the Blue Jays home run slugger

We also helped cheer up a little girl at the game yesterday, her big brother had bought himself one of those foam fingers, and she didn't get anything. Daddy had bought me a set of Argos buttons awhile before, so with my permission daddy gave the little girl one of those pins and told her it was my present to her, well she went from tears to a million watt smile in seconds, and was quite proud to have such a special button.

An important day in history

On this day sixty-nine years ago - 24 Jun 1944 - Flight Lieutenant David Hornell (the hero that daddy's Air Cadet Squadron is named for), and his crew sank U-1225 while on a North Atlantic patrol near the Faroe Islands. For his skillful attack and the subsequent 21-hour ordeal in the frigid waters, he received the Victoria Cross; the Commonwealth's highest award for valour.

Action painting of the attack on the U-boat

This is the PBY-5A Canso, the plane F/L Hornell flew, there is a replica of this plane in Hamilton, ON

To honor the pilots that have given their lives for our freedom here are two of our favorite poems to remember those brave pilots.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Impressions of a Pilot

Flight is freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;

To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within;

To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;

Then back to earth at the end of a day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.

Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;

Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again;

For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.

— Gary Claud Stokor

Superbun to the rescue

But I need your help, the nice people in Alberta need our help, the city of Calgary is flooded and people and animals have been evacuated. So I need for my readers to try and help in any way they can.

I've been telling you about my Superbun cape, and the shield daddy found for my Kryptonian family. Well with the app on the website we were able to make a mockup of what my cape will look like with the new shield in place.

What my super cape will look like.

The color is still being decided, so it might not look exactly like this.