1: K-Days Parade. I'm sorry, it'll always be K-Days to me. This Capital Ex name they thought of is horrible! They said they had a 'focus group' that picked this name - well they should have asked regular people. I don't like the name at all. But I digress ... The parade was not bad. We were on 103 avenue between 103 and 104 streets, just by the greyhound depot downtown. We took our chairs and sat on the curb, and had an excellent view of everything going by. My favorites as usual were the Pipe bands, and as the RCMP Pipe band was going by they played Scotland the Brave. Sigh. The Military had some cool stuff too, and there was even a fly by from a Fighter Jet! It was so loud you could hear it before you could see it. Not very many floats or marching bands anymore, but still not bad.
2: Trellia's Bridal Shower. It was a nice afternoon with her family and friends, and the girls from work were there too. It was a well planned event, Trellia's bridesmaid Tanya had games and food and there was even a Pyschic! Leave it to Trellia to come up with something different ! I went by myself, and it was nice to have an afternoon off from the rest of the gang.
3: K-Days Midway. We went on Monday at Noon, and there wasn't a lot of people there at that time. We got the kids the pay one price wristbands so they could ride all the rides they wanted to, and they did pretty good. They went on the Niagra Falls ride, and Lisa got soaked ! I got a little bit red from walking around, and the kids played games and came home with some cool stuffed animals. Anthony won himself a basketball that he's played with non stop since he got it. We only stayed for the afternoon, and then came home but it was a blast.
4: We went to the Mountains. We went to Hinton and met up with Becky from work, since she lives there now (I miss her -- I told her her job was still open if she wanted to come back ..) and we stayed there overnight, but popped into Jasper to go to the Miette Hot Springs. Andy had never been there before, and neither had the kids. We all really enjoyed it.
Here's Lisa and Anthony in the pool .. they had a Hot pool and a cooler pool, I could have stayed there all day ! The day after we were here we went through Jasper to Lake Louise, where Andy had to have his mountain breakfast. Oh, was it good! We kept on to Banff, and made it up to the Banff Springs Hotel. We would have gone in to the lobby to look around but parking was unbelievable!
We also saw some wildlife, some deer and elk, we were hoping to see a bear, but missed out. We did see lots of Bear Warning signs though. Maybe next year.
After all of this we came home and just relaxed before getting back into the grind. It was a nice 2 weeks off ... wish I had another 2 weeks.
