…this year the mere slight chill, a gentle two degrees below zero, brought out the big crowds, livened up the evening and made the event much more tolerable.

It helps, I\’ll claim hereafter, that when she quizzed me with “Which is your favourite princess, daddy?” that I promptly responded by telling her it was Princess Leah.

Long-story-short: a whole stack of new show homes in the neighborhood recently built waaaaaaaaaay South of us was apparently cause enough to throw a humble-but-impressive street carnival.

…we got a pile of those aforementioned free tickets and started some Fringing before the bulk of my shifts actually kick in.

We arrived and the line was half-way across the block, but it was clear that filming was in full swing and most people in line were just as eager to get a glancing cameo in some of the footage as they were in tasting some of the food.