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ciroccojSome days I think I'm so lo-tech touchtone phones confuse me. ::sigh::
Tried making a slideshow on Photobucket, but for some reason, it's just refusing to actually show up anywhere. It sure looks pretty on my screen, though.
Anyway, here's the hand-kluged version of something we took the kids to see a couple weeks ago, for the first time ever even though we live in Ottawa and it's, like, a big tourist attraction or something.
Warning for mega-pics behind the cut:
RCMP Sunset Ceremony
They started with a demo of obstacle courses with the drug dogs. I'm not a dog person, but these dogs even charmed me. Oh and I didn't know this, but apparently police dogs live with their handlers. Neat!
Next up was a marching band. Sadly, the wind never got strong enough for us to see whether they were Regimental or not ;)
Gorgeous, gorgeous horses. They had three of them showjumping. Chris isn't a horse person, but even he thought they were beautiful.
O when the Mounties come riding in
O when the Mounties come riding in
O I want to be in their number,
When the Mounties come riding in!
Mounties still marching in...
Lining up before the RCMP BigWig and the Ottawa Police BigWig. And the Corporate Sponsor BigWig.
...and they're off! Turning and crossing and running and trotting and doing it all in time.
Charge!!
Meet & greet with the horsies and riders after the ceremony. This horse's name was Trudeau :)
BTW, here's a link to the slideshow. If anybody can see this, could you let me know? I'm most put out that it didn't work.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v368/Cirocco/Summer%202008/?mediafilter=slideshows
OK, and is it wrong that during the entire ceremony, although I was impressed as all heck by the colours and prowess and music and horsies and splendour, I couldn't stop thinking of the Arrogant Worms' Mountie Song?
ETA: Damn, the link to the video works, but cuts off before the song ends. OK, here's the full version, audio only.
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and be cop in a province town or county
I thought it would be great if someday I could only ever be a mountie
I wanted to beat up crooks and make arrests because that's part of the profession
But now I sit on my horse and tell American tourists the Parliament's in session
I really don't look good in red and my stupid hat flies off my head in every parade
I'm young and strong and have no fear but now I'm spending my career in motorcades
I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me
I used to think that a mountie had to be honest, loyal, humble, strong and thrifty
But even though we don't break ranks, we get no thanks, they took us off the fifty (dollar bill)
On Sussex Drive in hallowed halls we act like guards in shopping malls, it's such a pain
Like someone's plotting the assassination of the Minister of Sports and Recreation, oh that's insane
Sometimes I just want to puke on Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Dudley Do-Right's such a jerk (Damn you, Snidely)
And though he tries with all his heart, my horse couldn't catch a shopping cart, some days I hate to go to work
I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me
I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me
Oh, no, it's not the life for me
Oh, no, it's not the life for me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me
Tried making a slideshow on Photobucket, but for some reason, it's just refusing to actually show up anywhere. It sure looks pretty on my screen, though.
Anyway, here's the hand-kluged version of something we took the kids to see a couple weeks ago, for the first time ever even though we live in Ottawa and it's, like, a big tourist attraction or something.
Warning for mega-pics behind the cut:
RCMP Sunset Ceremony
They started with a demo of obstacle courses with the drug dogs. I'm not a dog person, but these dogs even charmed me. Oh and I didn't know this, but apparently police dogs live with their handlers. Neat!
Next up was a marching band. Sadly, the wind never got strong enough for us to see whether they were Regimental or not ;)
Gorgeous, gorgeous horses. They had three of them showjumping. Chris isn't a horse person, but even he thought they were beautiful.
O when the Mounties come riding in
O when the Mounties come riding in
O I want to be in their number,
When the Mounties come riding in!
Mounties still marching in...
Lining up before the RCMP BigWig and the Ottawa Police BigWig. And the Corporate Sponsor BigWig.
...and they're off! Turning and crossing and running and trotting and doing it all in time.
Charge!!
Meet & greet with the horsies and riders after the ceremony. This horse's name was Trudeau :)
BTW, here's a link to the slideshow. If anybody can see this, could you let me know? I'm most put out that it didn't work.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v368/Cirocco/Summer%202008/?mediafilter=slideshows
OK, and is it wrong that during the entire ceremony, although I was impressed as all heck by the colours and prowess and music and horsies and splendour, I couldn't stop thinking of the Arrogant Worms' Mountie Song?
ETA: Damn, the link to the video works, but cuts off before the song ends. OK, here's the full version, audio only.
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and be cop in a province town or county
I thought it would be great if someday I could only ever be a mountie
I wanted to beat up crooks and make arrests because that's part of the profession
But now I sit on my horse and tell American tourists the Parliament's in session
I really don't look good in red and my stupid hat flies off my head in every parade
I'm young and strong and have no fear but now I'm spending my career in motorcades
I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me
I used to think that a mountie had to be honest, loyal, humble, strong and thrifty
But even though we don't break ranks, we get no thanks, they took us off the fifty (dollar bill)
On Sussex Drive in hallowed halls we act like guards in shopping malls, it's such a pain
Like someone's plotting the assassination of the Minister of Sports and Recreation, oh that's insane
Sometimes I just want to puke on Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Dudley Do-Right's such a jerk (Damn you, Snidely)
And though he tries with all his heart, my horse couldn't catch a shopping cart, some days I hate to go to work
I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me
I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
I good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
Oh no, the RCMP
Is not the life for me
Oh, no, it's not the life for me
Oh, no, it's not the life for me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me
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Date: 2008-07-11 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-11 04:48 am (UTC)ETA: Oh, and as far as I can see - nice seats on all of them. I appreciate that.
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Date: 2008-07-11 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-11 03:35 pm (UTC)I've only seen this on Due South, so very cool! and it makes me think of this song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKEyVemBGM
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Date: 2008-07-11 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-11 11:57 pm (UTC)Oh, and if it matters (and even if it doesn't), here's a different YouTube video that has the whole song on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQkql4dHniE
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Date: 2008-07-12 02:12 am (UTC)Damn, that icon's hilarious. Must show kids :D :D
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Date: 2008-07-12 02:20 am (UTC)Mmm, yeah, me too... ::sigh::
The general Fit Young Men-ness of the whole affair went over rather well with me. Mounties & Ottawa Police officers riding, running, doing security, marching, doing (people) obstacle courses... very nice :)
Quite a few more Fit Young Women than I'd expected as well. Which must have thrilled many of the little girls in attendance, and probably more than a few of the not-so-little guys :)
nice seats on all of them
Mmm, yes, very nice - though how you can tell from the pictures I don't know, what with the jackets and horses getting in the way...
::ducking, running::
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Date: 2008-07-12 02:38 am (UTC)Oooh! Thanks for the link :) :) :)
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Date: 2008-07-12 02:43 am (UTC)But, uhm, yeah, that too. Anyone who rides well has exquisite control of their pelvic floor muscles. I'll leave it at that. But not before remind you that I trained for twenty-plus years riding ::snk::