Winter Carnival

We spent the weekend at the cabin to play in the snow and take in the opening weekend of the McCall Winter Carnival. Luis, Lisa and Alex stayed at the cabin with us. Justin, Bev, Zarek and Escher stayed at their cabin nearby.

The first order of business was to check out the ice sculptures. Below we have the biggest snowman ever:

 Olaf and Sven. If you don't recognize these characters you don't have kids.

 ...And the giant cake honoring the 50th anniversary of the winter carnival.

 

As we were strolling around town to check out the ice sculptures, we happened upon the kids' night light parade gathering. We commandeered some torches for the kids and quickly left. Here is Marcus with his torch.

 

After acquiring torches, the kids were hungry. I carried Elena on my back while Luis did the same. As we were walking along the sidewalk, we could all hear the normally quiet Marcus yelling "TREE, TREE, TREE!!" Apparently Luis forgot to acknowledge the added height of his passenger and nearly wiped the poor kid out. 

We all got food from the fair-style vendors and found a seat for the fireworks. Marcus is a HUGE fan of fireworks. He was enthralled and even clapped during the finale.

The next day the guys took the older kids ice fishing while the girls hung out with the little ones. The kids spent most of their time playing with the sled and really enjoyed the sunny weather. I actually got a sunburn. The ice was slick and I think Elena and Zarek fell about 50 times each. Elena landed a nice jumbo perch. She named it Sprout Jr. A smaller perch I caught was named floppy.

 Here is a Mexican twist on ice fishing.

While we were out fishing Karen took Marcus out to play in the snow. He loves to crawl around in the snow and throw it at anybody within range.