Day 2

On day 2 we went to a boat tour, that turned out to be closed, so we drove around the lake. We went to Canada's oldest park, the Cave and Basin where the hot springs were originally found. Ate lunch in the city of Banff, shopped for snow boards, went back to the hotel for some swimming, and then went to a dinner show.

The "Oh, Cannada, Eh" Dinner show was very good. The Canadian food was good, although you had to add salt to make some of it good. They had split pea and ham soup, salad, roast beef, curry chicken, fried haddock, new potatoes, mixed vegetables, and marble cake with molasses icing. It was really some of the best food we've had in Canada. The show had lots of Canadian music, and a little bit of history, and info about the different regions of Canada. The actors were the servers as well. It was over 2.5 hours, and even Mason made it to the end, with a little break. Everytime he got bored they would bring out more food!

Mountains, Day 1

We headed out to the mountains for the long Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. We spent two nights at this Best Western in Canmore, just 30 min from Banff. We drove down Friday after the kids got out of school, spent the next day in Banff, then drove up along Icefield's Parkway and spent another night in Jasper. The last pics are the view out our hotel window. We were completely surrounded by mountains.

Pitch and Putt

Today was free day at all City of Edmonton recreation facilities, so Heather and Brian had the idea that we all go play Pitch and Putt Golf with all of the kids. The weather was great and everyone had a good time. Pitch and Putt is more like golf than mini golf, but on a smaller scale. Its just great for the kids to play and you only need a 9 iron and a putter. And even with all the leaves I think we only lost one ball.

Pictures of Fall

Bowling

Inspired by Shea's blog, we decided to take the kids out for bowling. Turns out its a really nice play though it doesn't look that way outside. They have pool, bowling, lazer tag, a small arcade, and a large bar. And no smoking inside, so it had nice clean air. The kids had a good time, and we went with Heather and her kids. Mason even got to "play" lazer tag. He ran around in the dark room screaming when he ran into people. It was just our group so it worked out well.

Last week we had our last rugby game and then family day at the park. I forgot my camera, so no pics. The kids had a great time, and Frank even got to play rugby. I guess we will start up again in the spring time.

More Hurricane Ike

We finally got pictures from our house. A few trees down, but it certainly could be worse. Doesn't it look like a beautiful day though?

Here is the few limbs and such down in the front yard. Plus we lost one of our shutters.

This is a pine tree from the vacant lot, now on ours.

This is a part of a tree to the left. I hope the rest of the tree is ok.

This is one of only 3 pine trees on our property. I guess now we are down to 2 pine trees.

This is a large oak tree that I just loved in our back yard. It just fell over.

Hurricane Ike

So far, everyone I know is Ok. Here are pics from my parents house. The tree was blown about 150 feet before landing on the shed.