Hey, Where's the Goat?

On Family Day this year, Scott discovered a goat at Cardel Place. This is him during the search for said goat. I think you can almost hear him asking that age-old question: "Hey, where's the goat?"

Family Day is an interesting holiday. The government says to you, "Hey, grab your family and go spend some quality time somewhere doing something." This is opposed to other holidays, where you are told more specifically what kinds of things to do. With little direction from the authorities, we went in search of activities and found that the Cardel Place community leisure center was hosting their First Annual Cardel Place Winter Carnival on Family Day.


We've been to Cardel Place before (1st visit, birthday visit) to swim and liked it, but we were pleasantly surprised by this carnival, which was on a massive scale. They had free public skating, hay rides, inflatable bouncers, an R/C car race, crafts, mini golf and a petting zoo. Plus, there were lots of little activities to do in the hallways, like guitar hero and sitting in a mini fire engine. Scott loved the fire engine, but he was intimidated by the retired firefighters who were standing around it. He started bawling when we got in it (I know the picture makes it look like he's crying because I stole his hat, but that is not the case).


As you can see, he finally settled down just as our turn in the fire engine was over. Then he cried because we took him out of it. Some people have trouble coping with the stresses of the holidays, I guess.


We were joined by two of Scott's cousins, who live near Cardel. His 4-year-old cousin A took charge of the kiddie posse, which was kind of nice. They all looked so cute, hand-in-hand.


Here are the boys. They are only 6 months apart and they are slowly getting to the point where they play happily together instead of just a tug-of-war over toys and screaming.

Still, even with all these good activities, we had to ask ourselves, "Where's the goat?"


After waiting in line for the petting zoo, we found the answer.
The goat is HERE.