Rubber Ducky Resort & Campground – A family campground located in Warren, near Winnipeg, Manitoba

This Friday night is the annual Stonewall parade of lights and we will be there as usual. I was trying to think how many years we have gone in the parade but I really don’t know for sure. I know that we started entering before we started the campground when we were still Rubber Ducky Hot Tubs. There were a couple years that we took a hot tub with at least one year we even had people sitting in the tub as we went down the parade route.  I am guessing that was probably in 2002 or 2003. I think we might have skipped one year when we weren’t able to get a float done. But the last few years we have always been there with a float of some sort and it is always a great time. Last year we were fortunate to have some good ideas and some good help and we won best commercial float. This year things started out with not much for good ideas, but some good help. We were just kind of winging it (yes pun intended) as we went along in the building process on Saturday and in the end it turned out pretty darn good. We now have our decorated car hauler trailer sitting in the picnic shelter patiently waiting for Friday night. We are still in the process of adding one more thing to the float that will be the unique finishing touch. Then the final details and hooking up on Friday afternoon and we will be on the road.

I am hoping that Mr WeatherMan is nice to us this year. We have been through it all – wicked North wind, – 30 temperatures, snow, and last year’s treat of amazingly warm conditions. We were definately spoiled last year when we hardly had to bundle up at all.

If you come to the parade be sure to watch out for the duck walking by. It’s hard for us on the float to see who is in the crowd sometimes so if you know us or have camped with us be sure to give us a BIG wave so that we can see you.  And if you hear the shout of “Who’s number one”  from our float. I wanna hear you shout back “Rubber Ducky”.

We still have some room for riders on the float so if anyone is interested let me know and I can save you a seat. You have to be able to meet us in Stonewall at 6:30ish and the parade is usually done just after 7:30.

So far, so good

I came across this on another site and thought I would share a chuckle with everyone.

Puns for Educated Minds

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a Tennessee whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’

13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’

15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

17. A backward poet writes inverse.

18. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.

19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you’d be in Seine .

21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’

22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says ‘Dam!’

23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.

24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’

25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

How to train your Dragon.

I can’t wait because I have always wondered how to get my dragon to shake a paw. Anyways, Saturday November 6 at 7:30pm we will be playing the movie on our 8 foot wide screen in the rec building. Everyone is welcome to come out and there is no admission.

You can check out the movie details at http://www.howtotrainyourdragon.com/

Looking for something halloweeny to do with your goblins and ghouls. There is always lots of scary and not so scary things to do in our area.

Scrapyard Paintball is sponsoring what looks to be a great halloween event at the Golf Dome. If you are able to check out this event be sure to stop by and say ‘Hi’ to Blair and company. Here is all the information from one of the event’s ads:  

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Murray’s Maze is always a popular place http://www.boonstrafarms.com/maze.asp. I learned a couple things as I was checking their website to write this blog. I didn’t know that they had a smaller maze for the littler kids and I also did not know that the full maze was so big – 10 acres to be exact. There is an aerial picture of the this year’s maze and also the mazes of Halloween’s past. Quite the sight to see.

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Six Pines Ranch is another place that goes all out and then some for Halloween. They also have non scary options for littler kids and what sounds like some reallly realllly scary options for the big kids. This is how their website answers the question – Is it really scary

“But is it really scary?

How scared you get is up to you. Fear is relative. We do our part by providing hands down one of the scariest Halloween attractions in Manitoba. Of course everyone has their own particular fear threshold. During the daytime haunt it is somewhat tamed down for the families, but at night time… the best answer we can give is 99% of the people who come out the back door are screaming. Repeat customer rate is very high. Being scared is fun!”

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Safeway Boo at the Zoo – This is always a popular place to be this time of year too. I am sure if our warm fall weather continues there will be lots of people Booing at the Zoo  http://www.zoosociety.com/specialevents_boo.asp

I am sure there are a lot more Halloween activities happening so if you know of some that I have missed please let me know. And if you happen to check out one of these places let us hear what your thoughts are? Did your family have a good time? Would you tell a friend to go?