Winterfest and Birthday Party

We had a very full weekend, on Saturday we went to Barrie's Winterfest with our friends Melissa, Aiden and Ayla. We toured the ice sculptures, went through the ice maze, Riley went tubing and down the ice slide and Simon, Riley and Amanda went for a dog sled ride. We had a big dump of snow on Friday...buses were cancelled (YAH).... then Saturday was nice and warm outside it was perfect conditions. Here are some photos of our day.




On Sunday Riley was invited to her first friend on her own birthday party...what I mean by this is she is not friends with her because we are friends with her parents....it's a friend from school. We were both a little nervous about dropping her off at a house that we didn't know so Amanda was the neurotic parent and called see if she could go too. The parents were fine with having another guest so off the girls went. At the party the hired a company called Zoo Tech and Riley and the other children were able to hold snakes, lizards, hedgehogs, turtles, have a parrot on her shoulder and even touch a scorpion....we were very impressed with Riley she was right in there and not scared of anything. We were very sad that we didn't have a camera to capture this but being rookie birthday party parents we were not sure about bringing a camera...now we know and will have one for this Saturdays birthday party.