2016 Beulah Parade and Yule Log Festival!

[Nanno]

They are definitely "exceeding expectations". We sure are having fun with these guys--more fun, I have to admit, than we've been able to have with Cuzco for a very long time, if ever. Unlike Cuzco, these boys love people and aren't cranky around children. Even when he was younger and less irritable, I've never really been able to trust Cuzco around kids. I don't entirely trust Sputnik either, but only because he is still occasionally prone to being startled or claustrophobic, not because he's hostile. Sputnik had a really positive experience over the weekend. He was the calmer of the two in the parade, he loved pulling the Yule Log, and he really enjoyed most of his interactions with the kids. He was the greedier about eating pine branches so for once in his life Sputnik got more attention than Finn and he really seemed to like it.