Fire Jugglers....

I was in such a rush to get the Mosaic stuff up, that I forgot to post a couple of things from the Cathedral Arts Festival....
This video is from the fire jugglers...we have watched them a couple of years in a row now. They are really good, and also funny...

Mosaic Review 2007!

Well, as promised...we will be posting some of the great entertainment which we saw at the pavilions around Regina. First for those of you who don't know what Mosaic is....a quick explanation.
It is a Regina festival held every year (40 now to be exact) which celebrates the diverse culture in this great city. There are Pavilions scattered all over Regina...this year there were 21. Tickets are only 10$ a person, and then you just pay for your food! It is great fun, and yet another example of some of the wonderful things which Regina has to offer the people who choose to make Regina home....
The first video is from the Italian Pavilion. Please be patient with the quality of the videos as some of them are from far back in the audience. I tried to get up front where possible, but it was pretty busy.



This was the first pavilion we actually went to on Thursday night. We went with our friends Jason and Brenda, and their kids Christian, Nathan and Mercy. I didn't get to see as much of Italy as I wanted to, as we were kind of running late, but we did take in two performances. We also sampled a taste of their food. Kendal had a piece of pizza (which by the way was really good) and I had sausage on a bun.

The only thing that I was disapointed about was that on the way out we realized that they had some really cool looking Italian pastries and coffees, and we didn't see it, because it looked like that side of the room was only a bar. They also had a pastry making demonstration which I would have liked to watch....Oh well...next year.....

I'm doing Good!

Wow! I'm doing good Louise! I have made almost a post a day....that's because I have so much to post about right now! Just to give you a quick update...I am going to be posting about Mosaic for the next few days. We went to Mosaic -Thursday, Friday and Sat. this year because we had the time, and there were so many pavilions to visit. They were all great, but I especially liked the Poltavia, the Laos the Chinese, and also the Caribean Pavilions. There will be videos in the next couple of days of some of the great entertainment..so keep your eyes open. For today though, I am finishing up my postings about the Cathedral Village..and so here for your viewing pleasure are some of the murals which my girls took pictures of during the day. If you put your mouse over the pics they will pop up so you can see them better....

And that concludes this years Jones' review of the 2007 Cathedral Arts Festival.....(LOL!)

oh....one more thing.....
This is a sign on the door of Groovy Mama (maternity store) in the Cathedral District! (Have a good night!)

The Cathedral Town Crier!

This guy amused the heck out of me...
He was the Regina Arts Festival "Town Crier"

(Defined as a person formerly employed by a town to proclaim announcements in the streets-or a gossip.....)

He was traveling the highways and byways of 13th ave, "proclaiming" upcoming events....very
much in the spirit of the festival....

More Cathedral

This is a video of my friend Karen who gos to our church- busking with her students (she works at the Music Conservatory) I really love when she sings Jazz. I had to laugh though...We were standing there talking to her, and this one lady standing next to me says..."Do you KNOW HER?" Needless to say I was amused....You have to listen to this video...Click on the arrow.

Dessart!

http://www.dessartsweets.com/

One of our fav things to do anytime in the summer is hang out at Dessart. (but especially during the arts festival when we can listen to the buskers and watch all the people doing their thing.....so that's what we did. I can't get enough of their ice cream. I always have a cappucino blizzard, and Kendal always has something with pralines....They also are an old fashioned candy store with all kinds of the treats I used to get when I was a kid....and some I didn't.....(Last Christmas I bought the girls Licket Crickets....suckers with a real bug in it.....On a dare at youth, they actually ate them.......) I am sure that in a couple of years Jeremy will love the place....

It's Lacy from the Ruby Restaraunt/ Corner Gas!

http://www.cornergas.com/

The locals of Dog River, Saskatchewan instantly suspect the worst when big city girl Lacey, inherits her aunt's roadside coffee shop. Will the dark haired beauty turn the town hangout into a gentrified coffee café, or worse still, close it down? Lacey's move to Dog River brings her into a world far removed from downtown Toronto.

Gemini-nominated actress Gabrielle Miller knew she wanted to act almost as early as she learned how to talk. The Vancouver native performed the lead roles in her Montessori School and by the age of eight she was enrolled in the children's theater group the "Green Thumb Players". Since then, she has appeared in several episodic series including Robson Arms, Frasier, The X-Files, The Chris Isaak Show, Jake 2.0 and Stargate-SG-1.

Can You Guess???

While walking down the street, checking out the booths, my girls both came running up to me....MOM! You won't believe who is here!
Kendal didn't believe them, so we went and checked....sure enough....

Can you tell me who this is??

Cathedral Arts Festival....

This Saturday, Kendal, the kids and I all went to the Cathedral Arts Festival. We go every year, and love it.....
It is a great place to just sit and watch all the people.....and there are ALWAYS some pretty interesting people in that part of Regina.....not to mention....HELLO!!!!! It's an ART festival people....so you are going to get some interesting characters....
Not to mention the diversity of dance, entertainment, theater, art and buskers...
The festival runs from 10 am to 5pm every year, and they close off a good portion of 13th ave for it.
It was probably the nicest weather we have had for the festival since I can remember....It was about 23 degrees and breezy- never too hot or too cold. (Last year it poured rain, the year before that it was cold, and the year before that way too hot...) I can not BELIEVE how many people turned up for it though. It seemed to me to be the biggest arts festival Regina has seen for a long time. There were actually far too many people, and cars were parked for blocks and blocks....and no parking. We however were fortunate, and were able to get parking right by the blockade...no walking. There were also more booths then normal too....For the first time, Kendal and I actually didn't get to see everything...

We stayed and listened to this band play for a while. They were pretty good for country...(I am not a fan) PLUS the lead guy had a guitar like my old one which was stolen in the break-in, and so I was interested....This was the Craven Music Festival end...The other end had some rock bands playing, but I wasn't very impressed with the one we heard...He sucked actually.

Enjoying our first few minutes of the festival....My kids managed to catch me with my eyes closed...yet another wonderful pic of me...

Sites and Sounds of Cathedral..

Here are just some of the pictures I took which capture some of the sites you can see at the Cathedral Arts festival.

EVERYBODY comes out to the festival...

Cathedral Clothesline Day!
On Friday, all the residents of the Cathedral District, took part in Cathedral Clothesline day....
The concept was to string up a piece of rope, and decide what items you wanted to use to tell your story, by hanging them on a clothesline.

Tomorrow, I will post some more of our day at the Cathedral Arts festival...Here are some hints for what will be coming up...our fav ice cream place...some video footage of fire jugglers...and the girls met someone famous and had their picture taken with them! Stay tuned......

Cathedral Arts Festival!

Wow! As Louise pointed out, I am really slowing down on the posting...
I will try to do better, I promise, especially as my parents are finally hooked up to internet now, so dad...make sure to check our websites at least a couple of times a week....
You never know what you will find out....LOL!

Anyways, todays plan is to go to the Cathedral Arts Festival with our girls, and Jeremy. Krystal and Talon are even meeting up with us there later....
We went last night to the kids part of it. It was the first time we went to the Friday night. Talon and Kendal's parents went with us, and we all enjoyed it, but it will definately be better next year when the boys are bigger....
It was very cool though...we forgot our camera, so we don't have any pics to post, but they had a parade, and some performers including some fire jugglers...very cool. We saw them last year too. They will be there again today, so we will try to get some pictures. They also had a bunch of dancers...(including some fire dancers) and then they showed movies all night on a big screen set up in the middle of the park. We didn't stay for the movies though, as Jeremy decided he had enough and it was quite cold.
We got home around 10.30....

If you want to see what is going on at the Arts festival click on this link....
http://www.cathedralartsfestival.ca/