Robindcr8l

Baldur, that was so entertaining I posted it on my facebook!

polenta

The schoolyear is finishing in Uruguay and schoolchildren are having their end-of-the-schoolyear parties and performances. It's very typical to dance folklore or country music. Here you have two examples of what these dances are like (performed by adults)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7odl3M7So&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9KiLXlxug&feature=related

polenta

You may see they are wearing the gaucho look, especially the very wide trousers (bombachas) which let them work in the countryside at ease and the knee-high boots which prevents them from eventual snakes, etc.

marius

Baldur, enjoyed your "shopping" video!

Polenta enjoyed your's videos very much too. (Thanks for explaining the trousers!) Most entertaining.

Login - too funny.

Smokenmirrors - are you dating Rasslebear?

marius

Ooops - smokeanshadow.

marius

btw Dragon, loved your dream about going to Chez Baldur! Thanks!

Baldur

There was a question recently about time standing still in Baldur's experience.
Well it happened today. Time crawled to a standstill.
Baldur was Santa at a very lightly attended all day event.
During my 7 hour shift 20 children appeared. It was dreadfully dull. In between looking at the Christmas trees and such I managed to read Charles Dickens' 'A Chrustmas Carol'.

Dragon

Hmmm, haven't read that one, is 'A Chrustmas Carol' any thing like 'A Christmas Carol', cause I can't imagine Ebeneezer being any chrustier

Dragon

Here's another Christmas favorite done by that same group Baldur posted earlier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8

Dragon

Had to post this here, Yufie did a beautiful picture of Santa sleeping, it made me think of Baldur as Santa bored out of his gourd waiting for the few children of the day.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=73484

SmokeanShadow

Yes Dragon that is also how I imagined his time spent, very good!
Here is a is something I hope you all enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1HmcvXFgaY&feature=related

Baldur

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Thanks for all the great videos everyone.
Oh how Santa would have loved a nap. The seat provided for me was rather comfortable and the warm sun was streaming onto Baldur from a huge bank of windows all day long.
The place smelled of evergreen and sugar cookies. The proprietors kept baking batches of cookies in their mini-kitchen. These were meant for the children of course, but the employees did a great job eating them as fast as they appeared.

Baldur

The cookies, not the children

Baldur

As for the synchronised Christmas light and music display I would love to drive by and see it for a few moments,
If it were across the street from Chez Baldur I would long to move.
Can you imagine this flashing in your windows all night long for an entire month?, not to mention the traffic it must generate

Baldur

The neighbors in the very first house on the corner of Baldur Boulevard have a very busy light display in their yard. My view of it here is filtered through the trees.
Their display is not as artistically arranged, comprised of many of those huge inflateable things. Oh how Baldur dislikes those

Baldur

Also included are many of those light bedecked semi-animated reindeer made of white coated wire, strings of lights dangling from low branches, large candy canes with glowing orbs, Santa's sleigh heaped with wrapped boxes and an assortment of other critters.
As charming as this appears to some at night, it looks like a trash heap during the daylight hours. The inflateables become deflateables, resembling lots of large empty trash bags lying around.
The other pieces tend to fall over in the wind, sometimes remaining supine (+9 points), though still illuminated for days and days.

polenta

Oh.... Smokean Shadow. The video of the house with the CAROL OF THE BELLS was very moving for my husband. It reminded him of his old days with choruses and choirs. Thanks so much.
Yes, lots of videos.... we all have to thank YOU TUBE. How did we ever exist without YOU TUBE (LOL)?

marius

Baldur, please tell us how to say your name again. Reason I ask is because someone said something silly the other day and I said, "What balderdash!" Then thought of you and now your name is has got a "dash" attached to it and that seems inappropriate and weird. Have got to get it out of my brain! Is it Bal-dure?

marius

Re: time standing still or stopping. Sorry you had such a long day as Santa. Where were all the kids? Was this event not properly promoted?

And, laughing at self as what I meant (but didn't say) about time standing still, or stopping, is when time passes so quickly it seems not to exist.

An example: last year met up with two friends I'd not seen in some time. We met for lunch at 11 a.m. and the next thing we knew it was 5 p.m. and the only reason we knew the time is because we were at Lynne's home and her husband came home from work! We were ALL shocked. All of us figured it might be around 2-3 in the afternoon.

Those are the "times" I meant - when something takes you OUT of time in the most pleasant of ways.

Baldur

'Bal' as in 'Balentine'
'dur' as in 'Durango'