Yes folks, there was snow!

The parking lot was brown, and until the base of the first run, there wasn't a stitch of snow to be seen. However, Killington claimed to have 40 runs open and it sure felt like snow when I face-planted!

Yes, as a means of calming Tamara's irritating adoption rumour obsession (and give her index finger a rest from all the incessant clicking), we headed down to Killington, Vt., over the Easter weekend for a little ski vacation. Which in this case, meant occassionally picking our way across boulders and grass with skis on, but generally heading in a downward trajectory with snow under foot. We agreed we were probably a little nuts, when we heard another guess exclaim to one of the hotel employees - "Skiing? Who would be crazy enough to try skiing at this time of year?!" - while we sat sheepishly in the corner with ski pants and long underwear on!

Of course, tales of our skiing adventure are not what you checked in here for, so I will spare you the details and get straight to the goods: rumours.

'Double, double toil and trouble, rumours burn and heresay bubble' ...

... to paraphrase an oldy, but a goody. (Extra points to the person who can tell me who wrote the original and in what work. Dad, you're excluded for obvious reasons).

There is a building level of speculation and the rumours seem to run the gamut. The prevailing one seems to be that the CCAA will match the first week of June (but does not specify to which date). However, there is also a nice juicy one saying that the CCAA will only match May 31st. What that means for us (with a registration date of June 3) is anyone’s guess. What it confirms is that no one has any idea. So, we are all confimed in our not knowing... (ah, my bureaucratic skills are coming through brilliantly).

Children's Bridge has told us that the referrals are expected at the end of April or the first week of May. As luck would have it, we will be in Whistler from April 27 to May 2. Fear not, we will be bringing the laptop with us and posting updates if we happen to get them.

So, check in soon, and check in often all you cool cats, cause there may be something in the next couple of weeks... unless of course, there's nothing...