Let's hit the road!

After the birthday party was over it was time to clean up and hit the road. The Summer holidays have arrived and we started the road trip to Jasper, Canyon Hot Springs (near Revelstoke) Seattle, Tofino (over 2000km in 5 days!), then back to Edmonton via Panorama while Will and Helen (Anita's Mum) caught the train back to Edmonton from Vancouver. A total of 4300 km.

The map below depicts places we visited (green), places we stayed (blue) and places we ate (cup and cutlery). There are photos linked to many of the placemarkers. These are similar photos to the slide show in the subsequent post.


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Alec's 50th birthday 28 June 2009

We celebrated Alec's 50th birthday with friends AND family on the 28th of June. Alec knew that Helen (Anita's Mum) and Stephen, Fiona, Seb and Nic (BIL/SIL and nephews) would all be here from Australia but he was totally amazed and delighted to have his best friend Duncan Shave over from Australia for the event.

A huge thank you to all our special friends in Canada too for coming and celebrating with us, this fantastic milestone!

Happy Birthday Alec!

Grade 9 Celebration at Vic

Curling

In April 2009 we had a try at curling at the Saville Centre, Edmonton.
They call it a funspiel which means "fun play"

House renovation, the journey so far...

As many of you know, we are renovating the basement and kitchen. It started awhile back and has been happening in spare minutes around work, studies and kids' lives. This three-day weekend we made excellent progress on the kitchen and even had time to share it!
PS: typing errors throughout the slide show are embarrassing but this was a rushed effort!