Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Storming City Hall

Well, Brianna made her first visit to City Hall tonight and made her voice heard loud and clear. Actually, the reason we were there is because Travis had entered the "Picture Plymouth" photo contest and won the grand prize! His reward was a $100 check that they presented to him during a city council meeting this evening. Due to this fact Travis has now been going around telling me that he can be considered an award winning photographer. Which, is true I suppose, technically. But I've been teasing him by calling it his "major award" (ever seen the movie A Christmas Story where they father gets a "major award" (a huge horrible leg lamp) for correctly solving a cross-word puzzle? anyways...) So, there we were at City Hall. And Bree did make her voice heard. Mostly because we had to sit through about 45 minutes to an hour of other, extremely boring, city council crap before they reached the photo contest on their official agenda. Really, it's impossible to get a 2 year old to sit quietly for that long. Bree wasn't being bad, not really, she was just babbling to herself and pretty much refused to whisper, no matter what I said. Therefore, the government officials were going on (as they do) and every now and then you'd hear this high-pitched voice pipe in, "That's my Daddy!" "Do you like gummy worms?" "I'm 2 and 1/2." and so on. Most people seemed to bear it with good grace and I figured well, that's democracy for ya, Bree has just as much right to be there as anyone else. Finally, they got to awarding the photo contest winners and Trav got to head up there, collect his money and shake the hands of the council members. It sure was an interesting evening. :)

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