Things I LOVE about Canada or at least find humorous!

So, about 2 weeks ago Sam, Nali and I went on a little road trip. Sam had to do an inspection in Glenwood and since he gets reimbursed for gas we thought that we might as well join him and see some sights. Below is our favorite beach in Waterton, there's snow in the mountains. It was a pretty nice day other than the Gale Force winds. It was unbelievable. Nali couldn't even walk into it. Water was being blown off the lake about 20-30 feet it was really quite entertaining. Notice the waves in the pictures, remember this is a lake...


In all my years of living in Southren Alberta, I've NEVER come across a cattle drive. So on this little roadtrip we took we ran into 3! YES 3!!!! Seriously the first one kind amusing, the second one a litle irritating and then the thirs one was "Are your freaking kidding me!" Well the pictures below are of the third one. The funny thing is the ranchers/cowboys doing the cattle drive look at you like you shouldn't be on the road. Seriously...the kind of eye you like "HOW DARE YOU DRIVE YOUR CAR ON THE ROAD!"

What would you do if you saw this coming at you down the road...

So Southren Alberta can be windy. You either love it and appreciate that because of the wind we have the mildest winter climate in Canada and no smog/pollution. Or you absolutely hate it and curse it. So this is a common sight driving around, rows upon rows of windmills. It's great, I love it, I think it not only adds to the scenery but shows us that people are thinking of alternate fuel resources.

The last picture is my most favorite. We pass this sign every time we go to Castle Mountain to go snowboarding and it always makes us laugh. It is seriously in the middle of no where. You can see that it used to say "1.7 km straight ahead." Well there was nothing ever 1.7 km ahead. I would really love to see this so if any of you make it up this way I will be sure to call the First People's consulting and set up a show.
I hope that all of you enjoyed the pictures from our little sight seeing trip in Southren Alberta. It really is a beautiful place and I love the diversity it offers.

HALLOWEEN PIC's....finally!

Well I finally got around to putting our Halloween pic's on the computer. After much tribulation about Nali not being a horse for Halloween she was very excited to be a dinosaur. We called her a "Nali-Saurus-Rex". We had a great time trick-or-treating with her. I think we only hit about 15 houses but they loaded her up. Our neighbors were great and would make a big deal about her. It's weird but it made us feel even more like this is our home.


The snow pic's are from the day before halloween. It's almost a tradition that Halloween is cold here. Next week will probably be really mild and nice again. But this week was freezing

A quick story, Monday morning I was sleeping in Nali's bed as she was watching TV in our room. I heard her get socks out of her drawer and then I kind of blanked out. A few minutes later I hear the back door close. I pop up and look out the window. There was nali in her little summer coat and a pair of gum boots playing in the snow with her pj's on. So I went and told her to come in and said that later in the morning I'd get her ready to play in the snow. It shocked me that she could get out of the house. And it suprised me how ambitious and old she is getting.

So Nali had an issue with Halloween. She's been hounding us about it for weeks. Last week she woke up at 2:30 AM and yelled from her room "NOW IS IT HALLOWEEN???" I yelled back "NO!" a few minutes later "NOOWWWWWWWWWWWW????!!!" Anyways, that's been our life well after since the snow fall she doesn't believe that it's halloween because there's snow. What a kid....

Nali's loot! The first time she's collected Canadian Chocolate bars. Notice the Coffee Crisps in the pic. They are to die for!!