Snoring babies and Altoids?

In order to truly enjoy the small things in life I believe one must take at least one walk with a snor­ing baby. Although he didn’t snore loud or a lot every so often a little chortle would drift out from behind his dad’s ear to give us a chuckle.

NOTE: Did you know that accord­ing to the US government’s pat­ent office there are hun­dreds of anti-snoring devices on the mar­ket. Some of them startle you awake when they sense you are snor­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, they may only work because they keep you awake!

But I digress, Little Spud of the Time&Space crew, wasn’t exactly in a great sleep­ing pos­i­tion, just hap­pily stuffed into his too small Mich­elin man snow­suit perched on his dad’s back in a back­pack while the rest of us and big spud splooshed and slipped our way hunt­ing for three caches downtown.

The N. Sask. river was still frozen over and there were lots of tracks on the snow still cov­er­ing the ice. You know even in the dead of winter I’m not sure I’d walk on any river its just too creepy. We saw the stu­pid Edmon­ton Queen frozen to her perch on the south­side of the river and what looked like a hov­er­craft type vehicle skim down the middle of the river. I had a flash of air­boats in the Ever­glades, until the glare of snow and ice brought me back to real­ity, although I did see a really big squirrel…you know the ‘gator kind wait­ing to drag you down a tree stump and gnaw on your pinky finger.

The caches were a bit chal­len­ging espe­cially one of them, hav­ing never seen an Alt­oids con­tainer it was a chal­lenge before we looked up the clue. When I first heard of Alt­oids I wondered what the heck an Alt­oid was as it soun­ded like some­thing you got like a hemroid and cer­tainly not any­thing I wanted to find out in a forest, at any rate I’m glad cache con­tain­ers are not all like this!

The walk­ways were icy when we star­ted out but by the time we got back to the north side of the river around noon we were all doing much more sploosh­ing than slip­ping. And sploosh­ing in a big puddle is much more enjoy­able espe­cially when you’re, uh … older … yeah your boots are higher

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