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Well, not quite, but lots of wildlife in this post.  I forgot that I hadn't updated about Mother's Day.  Seems old news, but it was still fun.  My parents came into town and we all (them, myself, my b/f, my brother, my sister in law, my nephew, the dog) went to Springbank Park for a picnic.  It was fun.  We got a great picnic table, away from everyone else (thus quiet), yet in the shade and right next to parking!  Score!  After that, we went for a walk along the Thames River for about an hour.  It was a nice day.  Here are some highlights:

We fed the squirrels and chipmunks some peanuts (as clearly seen in the squirrel pic).  I'm sure it's one of those unspoken rules to not feed the wildlife, but everyone knows that everyone does.  Especially the wildlife.  They know the spots with the benches and hang out there waiting.  It's amusing.  One of the chipmunks ate out of my brother's hand even.  They're so cute.

Another highlight (or lowlight, depending on who's asking), was these random people who were... well... see for yourself:

Wtf?  I also got a pic of 'Darth' hugging a little girl.  I can not express how WRONG that is. So out of character!  :P  Anyway, the kids seemed quite amused.  When the 'group' started to walk over to the kids they got really excited and started screaming and stuff, and one kid actually ran up and bowed to them, which is that last picture there... hahaha  It was so funny.  Kids are so weird.  But it works great for them, because they have an excuse.  They're kids.  Adults?  They're just weird.

They were apparently promoting some event that was happening the following weekend (which was now this past weekend, and I missed it because I was out of town). It was to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the first Star Wars movie.  Wow.  Who's old here?  Admit it.

Speaking of out of town, this weekend was the long weekend up here in Canada (you weirdo Yankess have it next weekend).  :)  I had to work Saturday, which blew, but at least it was slow (aka, boring) that day.  So I didn't really get a 'long' weekend, but Chris and I, and the cat, and the dog went to my parents house for a visit.  We drove the scenic route on the way there, which was nice.  I like it at my parents place.  It's so quiet.  I definitely want a house out of the city, out in the country, once I get into 'house' mode.  Sunday was chiiiilly, and kinda windy (we had wanted to have a bonfire, but weather conditions disagreed) but today was beautiful and warm.  We let the dog outside most of yesterday, and almost all of today.  Kept him on a tie on so he wouldn't take off, but still, he enjoyed it.  Ever since we got home about 4 hrs ago he's been resting in his crate.  haha  Cute.

Here're more highlights of wildlife there including KITTIES (though kitty-mom is hiding them a bit... d'awww... mommies...): Which reminds me that we saw another mother cat (there are 3 barn cats at my parents house, all females, all of which had litters this month... wtf?) move her kittens to a new spot.  Cutest thing ever = little kitty dangling from mother cat's mouth as she trots them across the grass whilst kitty mews all "mom, wtf"ish.  No pic of that unfortunately, but just imagine the cuteness.  IMAGINE.

And, thus we reach the part where like any good animal parent, I give you various pics that are probably cuter to me than they are to you.  Here, the dog:
:)  I also took some videos of him running around playing 'fetch', or rather 'throw, get, and don't bring back', but they're kinda long and I'm not feeling up to waiting for them to upload.  haha  He kept running out of the shot anyways.  Though, one video does show a time when he ran a little too far and reached the end of his tie on length, and it jerked him right off his feet.  It was only hilarious because he didn't hurt himself (and because sometimes, falling down is just damn funny).  We let him run around off leash (no tie! FREEDOM) through the uncut foot-high grass too, which he really seemed to enjoy eating as much as jumping around in/over.  I think it was good for him to get in full on sprint mode for a while as he ran back and forth between Chris and I.  We were testing his ability to run towards us when we called him.  He did pretty well considering I judged us to be about 50-70 metres away from each other (don't ask me what that is in feet,  I'm Canadian damnit).

Anyways, I will seriously try to update more often, as I've had a lot of things pending in my mind to discuss, but I like to keep my posts generally one topic..... HAHAHA ok, anyone who's read my blogs for a while knows that's crap, but I'm GOING to try from now one to keep them one (ish) topic.  Or at least somewhat related (aka, the wildlife/pic/weekend adventures theme in this one).