After having ‘locked’ his mother into the hall by the washing machine (her exit was impeded in one direction by the stroller that lives in our hallway and in the other direction by the door he just rudely closed), I made a big fuss out of it.

After a short while, Aidan tells me:

This is a super big problem! We need to change the story!

It makes much more sense (and is quite funny) if you’ve seen any episodes of this!

It’s snowing again. April 21st. Vancouver. Snow.

It *must* be Monday.

Today, we joined 59, 176 other people and participated in the annual Vancouver Sun Run. A record size crowd on a record cold day (at 9am, it was 2 C, with a -6 C windchill!). This is Aidan’s third Sun Run and our fourth. Read about last year’s Sun Run.

Here’s a shot from Flickr in the middle of the crowd many blocks back from the start line. We were about another 3 blocks further behind where this photo was taken.

And a shot from the start line, taken from the band stand (also from Flickr). We crossed the start line about 1 hour after the first runners.

Here’s a shot Aidan took using his camera around kilometre 8.

And another from Aidan:

And one of Aidan using his own camera:

On the plus side, I didn’t have to carry Aidan on my shoulders for the last two kilometres. On the minus side, Aidan started asking around kilometre 2 if we were going home. And asked continually until we got to BC Place. And of course, we walked home back across the Cambie Bridge and nearly for the whole length of the bridge, Aidan was crying that he didn’t want to go home. Sometimes, it feels like we can’t win.

We crossed the finish line outside the Plaza of Nations about two hours after we started. That’s a pretty good pace pushing the stroller and with a bathroom break and refreshment break thrown in for good measure.

Completely unrelated but on the walk back across the Cambie Street bridge we got a pretty good look at all the construction happening at the future Athlete’s Village on the old industrial lands on the south side of False Creek. Count the cranes. There are two more out of frame to the right…

Home again, and we rocked out with two hours of Rock Band after two hours of ‘nap’ by The Boy and relaxing by The Parents :)

If someone ever asks you what spring time in Vancouver is like, point them here.

This is 11pm, 18 April 2008.  Note: APRIL.

Current temperature: 0.3 °C.  Snow falling at about 5 cm/hour.  Flurries forecast for the rest of the weekend, including the Sun Run, a 10 km charity ‘run’ involving over 57,000 people on Sunday.

(Most of these were taken with 8 to 13 second exposures, so you can’t see the snow actually falling until the last shot…)

I have only one question.  What the hell?