A School Fair like No Other.. and a River "Walk"

This weekend was the Welcome Back Party hosted by the Parents Association. I still am not quite sure why it is called the 'Welcome Back' party... We have been "back" for more than 6 weeks. Regardless, this was a pretty neat event. It was held at the high school and had all sorts of things for the kids and their families to do:
-Haunted House
-Bingo
-Cake Walk
-Concert Stage
-Rides (like the ones you would find at a fair!)
-Bouncy Castles
-Dunk-Tank
-Tons of food! There were bake sales, and pizza, crepes, cotton candy, papas (potatoes) on a stick, various Mexican food, Sushi, Churos (these are like beaver tales, but long and round) and much more...

The next day I went on what was called "a walk" in a park an hour outside the city. We were walking along the Rio Ramos... Or at least, that is what we thought we were going to do. It turns out we were actually crossing THROUGH the river multiple times. The Vice Principal of K-2 and her husband offered to take the new teachers this weekend. Federico (the husband) apparently goes most weekends, but the last time his wife had been there was almost a month ago, and I understand that the water level was much lower! It turned out to be a great time.. but we really were walking in the river. Often times we were up to our knees, occassionally we were up to our waist, and there was one point we actually had to swim. Because we were carrying bags wih food and cameras, we had to carefully pass our bags so that they didn't get totally soaked. The terrain along the edge of the river ranged from dirt paths, to small stones to large rocks that you had to climb over carefully. Unfortunately at one point I took a little spill and hurt my hand a little bit. It wasn't so bad, but took me by surprise and I know have two swollen fingers. We ended up hiking/walking/swimming for about 5 or so hours. It was a great way to spend the day.

As we were walking back to the car at the very end, we passed a group of cows, just out wandering. Milligan - this definitely made me thing of the Napanee cows, so this picture is for you!