Sunrise festival Satuday events

Well after the pancake breakfast and appallingly flat light and no sun and light snow the snowmobile parade went ahead with about 10 sleds participating including the one pulling the hockey rink "float" - looked like a lot work went into that. The parade wound its way down Mackenzie, which is usually banned territory for snowmobiles to Jim Koe park to meet up with the ice carving competition - which was actually compacted snow carving. People a lot of effort into it with the eventual winner being the drum dancer though I thought that the polar bear was really well done and the catholic church carving was unique - being that you could look at one from the other. There was also a stylized mushroom though it didn't apparently place.

The bon fire was done out by the golf course and consisted of approximately 800 pallets - accordingly to a friend who helped build it. The ice café was a bit of a bust with the vender not even using it after a town worker spent all day creating it, including carving an ice polar bear with a chain saw. The blocks were taken directly from Boot Lake. The igloo was a bit ambitious height wise and the workers were not able to close it off so it had an improvised plywood roof, but that didn't matter as everyone still crawled inside for a look.

Global Breakfast news from Edmonton was poking around and pulling the "celebrity" card to some extent. The fire works seemed to be everyone's favorite with most of the town watching from the bon fire site or from their vehicles parked along the roadways - good views from all sorts of places.