Ok, so after my last ranty post about snow, it’s been more or less melting!! We had another snowstorm this past weekend but otherwise it’s been disappearing pretty quickly. So nice. I’ve actually seen a few blades of grass that don’t look completely dead, maybe spring is coming after all.

We also hosted a kinball tournament this weekend. Four katimavik groups showed up, as well as a bunch of people from the community, and it was a good time. For those of you not familiar with kinball, this is sort of what it looks like:

The goal is to keep the ball from touching the ground. So three people have to crouch down and hold it, while the fourth person yells “omnikin” followed by the colour of another team (eg, omnikin rouge). Then the red team has to catch the ball.. and repeat the process. You gain points when you serve the ball and the team called doesn’t catch it. It’s actually a lot of fun, though I am still sore & covered in bruises. But, my team won the tournament, so it’s okay ; )

Josh and I were house manager this week, and we made a gigantic brunch beforehand for us & the Baie St-Paul group, who slept over:

It is rare to have a meal like that in Katimavik.. crepes, tons of fruit, bacon, eggs. Vegan sausage and crepes too, of course. It was also a lot of work to make something like that for 20 people but totally worth it.

This is a terrible picture and I will probably regret posting this in the future but, I still think it’s funny, and very “katimavik” so… this is what I look like, making bread at 7:30 in the morning:

Note the one piece pjs, the coffee that clearly hadn’t been touched yet, my squinty eyes and the unimpressed look, despite the fact I am smiling. But I have bread.

Since this post is all over the place already, I might as well keep going. Every week we have some sort of theme dinner.. I am not sure exactly what is going on in this picture, though, other than togas. Flowery togas.

also, the Chute Montmorency.. brilliantly, I forgot my camera in the van when we went up, so this is as good a picture as I got, but it was fairly impressive. Taller than Niagara Falls, apparently.

Yep, those little black specks at the bottom are people. We went over that bridge, too, which was terrifying, because the bridge was swaying but did not seem to be the type that’s SUPPOSED to be swinging..

And to finish things off here, if there is one thing I miss (that is not a person) it’s my bike. I am practically drooling when I see other people biking around town here… I think I need to find a garage-sale bike, or something, because I am aching to get out there & our house bike (which spent the winter in a snowbank under our stairs) looks like this..

Big ol’ pile of rust. Not something I would trust if I were to bike to work, for example, which requires going on the highway. Any better ideas?