The reason we had to turn back and head down the trail and back up the other trail to the Grassi Lakes....there was no way to get beyond the waterfall view:
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Apr 9, 2011
Grassi Lakes, Canmore
Today we hiked up to Grassi Lakes TWICE!!! :) First we took the more difficult trail which is much prettier and more fun...actually an easier trail to hike on your legs, but is narrower and you have to cross some small waterfalls and climb stairs which were completely iced up today (hence us walking back down to the car and then back up the easier (more tiring) trail..... In all its about 7km or so...of uneven/ uncleared pathways.
We have hiked up to the lakes a few times before but always in the Summer, and we were really keen to see them in the snow. It was well worth the climb even if we had to do it twice :)
Friday fill ins!!
And...here we go!
1. In the near darkness I can hear drip, drip, drip from melting snow off of the roof top.
2. I can not reply to Emails til further notice.
3. But this is where I truly belong - and one day I will either live here full time or part time.
4. As a child I loved to paddle, catch minnows and jump stepping stones in the stream.
5. It's always nice to know I'm going to wake up here in Canmore :) .
6. Dogs truly love unconditionally and are wonderful friends and pleasant company.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to taking a walk with Susannah and Rosie to the store for a few groceries, then relaxing in the bath , tomorrow my plans include breakfast out with Susannah, then hiking somewhere with her and Rosie all day - then Susie wants to have supper at the Grizzly Paw so she can try their home made pop as recommended by her friend Julia - then back to relax in the hot tub with a book before bed and Sunday, I want to check out of the room then head out for brunch to our chosen restaurant before starting the long and sad drive away from this place towards home - but so pleased to see my home and children!
You can find the Friday Fill-ins HERE
1. In the near darkness I can hear drip, drip, drip from melting snow off of the roof top.
2. I can not reply to Emails til further notice.
3. But this is where I truly belong - and one day I will either live here full time or part time.
4. As a child I loved to paddle, catch minnows and jump stepping stones in the stream.
5. It's always nice to know I'm going to wake up here in Canmore :) .
6. Dogs truly love unconditionally and are wonderful friends and pleasant company.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to taking a walk with Susannah and Rosie to the store for a few groceries, then relaxing in the bath , tomorrow my plans include breakfast out with Susannah, then hiking somewhere with her and Rosie all day - then Susie wants to have supper at the Grizzly Paw so she can try their home made pop as recommended by her friend Julia - then back to relax in the hot tub with a book before bed and Sunday, I want to check out of the room then head out for brunch to our chosen restaurant before starting the long and sad drive away from this place towards home - but so pleased to see my home and children!
You can find the Friday Fill-ins HERE
Weekend getaway...
The condo we're staying in this weekend is actually owned by a family, but rented out by Bellstar when the family don't use it. It's slightly different from the suites with rented before here - in that it has different bedding, a mat by the door, a few extra pictures and decorations here and there....and the table was laid attractively when we arrived. There is also a guestbook here you can read and sign - full of messages from people from all over the world who have stayed in this condo. Apart from that though, everything else is exactly the same, and if you hadn't stayed here before, you wouldn't know it wasn't part of the hotel - you still have all the housekeeping, tea/coffee...towels, little extras etc etc...
The pool is open unless the temperature or windchill drops below -20c Each block of condo's has it's own hot tub, underground parking...etc etc....
Admiring her first view of the mountains...
I don't think Rosie quite knew what to make of today.....of the hotel, the long car trip, her first elevator ride...her walks on the leash to the store and out to pee.....she seemed a little bewildered, unsure, happy to be with us...excited, nervous.....
She is quite clingy for sure - I had a long bath this evening and Rosie slept on the floor beside the bath tub the whole time. I do love how well behaved Rosie is these days - such a friendly dog, and for a dog who NEVER walks on a leash at home - and is always free to run about, she is EXCELLENT on a leash...she always is - when we walk to the mail box even. Mind you, even off leash she tends to walk right beside us. Amber, her sister, always used to run off as soon as she could, and pull on the leash.....but Rosie always stays with us and walks beside us....and if someone is walking much slower than the others she will often stop and wait for them - she likes her 'family' to stay together <3
Right now she's asleep in the corner of the bedroom on the floor - it's soooo warm in here despite the window being open wide - I think she's too hot to sleep on the bed tonight!!
Apr 8, 2011
CrossIron Mills....
Today Susannah and I headed off for a girls weekend to Canmore - my favourite place in the world :)
We left the other children at home, but we did bring Rosie, because we're planning a weekend of hiking - as much as possible anyway :) Unfortunately Canmore got a good dump of snow on Thursday and the area is a bit of a wet, soggy mess....and as much as we've brought boots and plenty of socks, we were really hoping NOT to have to deal with too much of a wet and muddy mess...VERY different from last year in March when we were in Jasper and there was no snow at all!!
We stopped off on Gasoline Alley and found a quiet area for Rosie to have a run.....then we headed down to Balzac to the CrossIron Mills shopping mall....Rosie had another run there before we went shopping, and then another before we continued on our way!
The pictures above show the poutine I had for lunch at the mall - New York Fries do a Butter Chicken Poutine!!!! It was YUMMY!!! Totally unhealthy but delicious :)
The light is another picture I snapped in a store - this time in Urban behaviour - I love how some lights look in Instagram pictures :)
This was our third visit to CrossIron Mills....it was really quiet today. I still MUCH prefer West Edmonton Mall.....but maybe that's because I'm not really into labels and designer wear...or shopping!! But we did finally get Susannah some shoes - and I got a pair for myself at last - Rosie chewed one of my running shoes up about a year or so ago and I had never got around to replacing them...I'm not really a runners kind of gal - unless I'm running lol - but I really wanted some comfortable runners for wearing to walk Rosie when it dries up...and just around the acreage etc....and today I found the perfect ones. Soooo comfortable!! In fact I wore them the rest of the drive here and was so pleased to get my boots off.
I'll post a pic of Susannahs new shoes tomorrow - she loves them - I definitely made one very very sweet girl very VERY happy :)
Brotherly love :)
Laurence and Sam were messing about on my bed this morning and making each other laugh....I snapped a couple of pictures of them because they looked so sweet together - and because with his mop of curls, Laurences head looked twice the size of Sams ;)
They get on so well most of the time - because Sam and Laurence have the same kind of sense of humour - toilet humour makes them both laugh ;)
Fixed!!
Susannah fixed Sams badminton racket for him :)
I'm not to hopeful that it's going to work ;) Sam thought it was kind of cool though :)
Message in a bottle...
This morning I was filled with love <3
My GORGEOUS little boy came into my bathroom as I was packing to leave, and he gave me a bottle. He told me it was a pirates bottle - with a message in it - the kind of bottle people - and pirates - throw into the sea and then people find them and can read them :) Awwww
I carefully opened the bottle and took out the rolled up paper - it was a little damp from the water inside the bottle <3
Inside was the note in this picture :) He tells me it is the North Pole, with a rainbow over it :)
LOVE <3
Apr 7, 2011
Thursday ramblings....my first car service :)
This morning we headed over to Calgary Trail and met Val and her Daughter Jessica for brunch at IHOP. They each had their little ones with them too, so there were 9 of us in all :) Food and service were again not great...in fact it took ages for them to take our order and a LIFETIME for the food to come...but this time at least the coffee was good!!! And the company was wonderful - and thank you sooo much Val for treating us!!! xxx It had been far too long - lets not leave it as long next time!!
After IHOP, we headed to Sherwood Park to Park Mazda. I had a coupon for a free oil change and 21 check service with them. It had to be used up by May 1st and as I am heading out of town I figured it was a good time to get the truck checked out!! They are fully booked up up between now and May 1st with people using up their coupons, but said they'd fit mine in over the lunch time period as they had finished all the morning services. I was soooo grateful!! I explained that I had NEVER taken a car for an oil change or service before and knew nothing about cars/ services etc. They talked me through the WHOLE thing!!! The guy was amazing!! (amazingly cute too...far too young for me sigh....but very cute lol) He explained about when to book the truck in to have the tyres changed, about how often to have it serviced, what they do....everything.
We left the truck there and headed up to run a few errands and look around a few stores....and we stopped in for frozen yogurt...before my phone rang to say the truck had a dirty air filter and did I want them to change it. I said yes. They also said that the free oil change only included up to 5 litres of oil and my truck may need more than that but it would be about $5. more....and the coupon had said that so that was fine...he said the truck was ready apart from that so we headed back....
When we got there he explained that the air filter hadn't arrived yet so they had sent someone to get it....and it wouldn't take long, so we sat for a little while and then I walked Sam around the dealership and we looked at all the cars....one of the salesmen overheard Sam talking about horsepower and prices and various things and laughed and said he knew more than most of the salesmen in the showroom :)
After about probably less than 30 minutes they explained that the air filter hadn't arrived - they apologised for having us wait so long (??? I didn't think they had) and said because of the wait they would return my coupon but cancel the expiry date of May 1st - so I can use it for my next service in August or whenever I next take it in....they also said they wouldn't charge me for the extra oil.....AND they said just to call in any time and they will just pop the old air filter out and the new one in because it's an easy job. They can probably do it when they do my tyres. They said it isn't so bad that it NEEDS to be done urgently, so it's fine :) They did say that it might just make it run a little less economically - I laughed at that because of the cost of gas going up...sigh.....
I was soooo nervous about going for an oil change and going to a drive through place and whatever....but in the end I think I picked a really good place - they treated me sooo well and were so friendly and helpful. Best of all it didn't cost me a penny and neither will next time!!! :) Fabulous!! :)
All this probably doesn't sound like much to many people, but a year ago I didn't even know how to pump my own gas!!! I wouldn't drive in the dark or in bad weather.....OR downtown or to much further than Sherwood Park. Now I don't even think twice about where I'm going - or when - or what the weather or traffic or parking is like. I just want to go somewhere and I go :)
Now I've done a car service....that's another step towards independence I can tick off ;) LOVE IT :)
After IHOP, we headed to Sherwood Park to Park Mazda. I had a coupon for a free oil change and 21 check service with them. It had to be used up by May 1st and as I am heading out of town I figured it was a good time to get the truck checked out!! They are fully booked up up between now and May 1st with people using up their coupons, but said they'd fit mine in over the lunch time period as they had finished all the morning services. I was soooo grateful!! I explained that I had NEVER taken a car for an oil change or service before and knew nothing about cars/ services etc. They talked me through the WHOLE thing!!! The guy was amazing!! (amazingly cute too...far too young for me sigh....but very cute lol) He explained about when to book the truck in to have the tyres changed, about how often to have it serviced, what they do....everything.
We left the truck there and headed up to run a few errands and look around a few stores....and we stopped in for frozen yogurt...before my phone rang to say the truck had a dirty air filter and did I want them to change it. I said yes. They also said that the free oil change only included up to 5 litres of oil and my truck may need more than that but it would be about $5. more....and the coupon had said that so that was fine...he said the truck was ready apart from that so we headed back....
When we got there he explained that the air filter hadn't arrived yet so they had sent someone to get it....and it wouldn't take long, so we sat for a little while and then I walked Sam around the dealership and we looked at all the cars....one of the salesmen overheard Sam talking about horsepower and prices and various things and laughed and said he knew more than most of the salesmen in the showroom :)
After about probably less than 30 minutes they explained that the air filter hadn't arrived - they apologised for having us wait so long (??? I didn't think they had) and said because of the wait they would return my coupon but cancel the expiry date of May 1st - so I can use it for my next service in August or whenever I next take it in....they also said they wouldn't charge me for the extra oil.....AND they said just to call in any time and they will just pop the old air filter out and the new one in because it's an easy job. They can probably do it when they do my tyres. They said it isn't so bad that it NEEDS to be done urgently, so it's fine :) They did say that it might just make it run a little less economically - I laughed at that because of the cost of gas going up...sigh.....
I was soooo nervous about going for an oil change and going to a drive through place and whatever....but in the end I think I picked a really good place - they treated me sooo well and were so friendly and helpful. Best of all it didn't cost me a penny and neither will next time!!! :) Fabulous!! :)
All this probably doesn't sound like much to many people, but a year ago I didn't even know how to pump my own gas!!! I wouldn't drive in the dark or in bad weather.....OR downtown or to much further than Sherwood Park. Now I don't even think twice about where I'm going - or when - or what the weather or traffic or parking is like. I just want to go somewhere and I go :)
Now I've done a car service....that's another step towards independence I can tick off ;) LOVE IT :)
A little bit Twisted :)
This afternoon I took my car for a service (Yes - really!!) and while we were waiting, I had to run into H and R Block where my friend Sandy works, and then we went to Twisted Yogurt. I've never been there, but it's very much like Marble Slab Creamery - the ice cream place - except for yogurt!! You do it all yourself - fill your tub with yogurt and then top it up with all the toppings you want - then you pay by weight - but it was pretty cheap really - I was surprised as it's about half the price of Marble Slab!!
The kids REALLY enjoyed the experience and gobbled down their yogurts. I picked Pistachio and chocolate yogurt with granola and chocolate oreo crumbs. It was delish :)
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