We recently discovered Gull Lake; it is a wonderful spot just before Red Deer with a great sandy beach, nice grass area for a picnic, a playground and of course an ice cream shack. We only made it out once last year, as the weather didn’t cooperate on the other days we had planned. This […]
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Summer Holiday
Our summer holiday was all planned – take the boys to Banff to see the mountains then go onto Calgary to see the Calgary Zoo! Well all those plans fell through when Southern Alberta experienced a most horrible flood. So instead we turned our summer holiday plans into a stay-cation. We stayed at home and […]
Remember the summer heat?!
The Canada Day long weekend gave us a few wonderfully hot hot true summer days. While we normally make our way to the Alberta Legislative Grounds to enjoy the wading pools and everything Canada, this year with the heat, we felt we would stay closer to home and away from too many crowds. So we […]
Let’s Play Catch Up
We are half way through summer (even though it really doesn’t feel like summer — don’t get me started)…let’s start with the tail end of soccer season – the Tim Bits Jamboree. As from most of the soccer season we battled rain outs and why should the Jamboree be any different. We smiled through the […]