Last Thursday my dad's sisters were in town. Although it was short, we had a wonderful visit. I haven't seen my dads oldest sister in several years. The picture to the right is of my sister-in-law Donna, My dads oldest sister Cindy, the middle sister Pam, My beautif
ul daughter Rebecca and the Baby of the sisters Jackie.
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On Friday we drove
for 8 or so hours from Kamloops BC where we live to Edmonton AB. We had a picnic lunch in Hinton AB at the Alberta Visitors center. After arriving at our hotel and getting checked we took the 5 min walk over to the N.A.I.T. Campus to watch my younger brother first hockey game of the weekend. They won 9-1 and Colin was in need of some dental work after the game as a result from a stick to the mouth from a future pastor (the team they were playing was from a Seminary school in SK)
(pic
ture on the left of the mountians heading into Jasper Nation Park AB)
On Saturday I was abl
e to get in a swim with Rebecca at the hotel pool and even got some
shopping in at the mall conviently located across the street from our hotel. Saturday afternoon we watched another game tha
t my brothers team just happend to win....AGAIN! Did I mention the 60-80 mile winds? At some point my skirt was almost around my neck and there were severe w
ind warnings on the TV
(aprently Edmonton gets Tornados....I was a little worried).
Sunday was nice. We took our time getting up, later went for breakfast/brunch w
ith my brother and then droped him back at his hotel and headed over to the West Edmonton Mall. I made s
ure to turn this into a learnign experience for my daughter with a visit to the Deep sea Caverns where we got see creepy crawlies, African Penguins, Sharks, full grown sea turtles and even pet star fish and baby sting rays (yes this was in a mall).
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r="0"></a>My mother and I also took Rebecca to the Sea Lion show where after she was kissed by one of the Sea Lions. Of course we also visited a few of the 100's of stores including Build a Bear workshop where Rebecca picked up a new outfit for her bear and a candy store where she got to pick and fill her own powdered candy tube. We also watched the last game that my brother had and the won yet again. Rebecca was very excited about being able to watch uncle play hockey.
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On Mon
day we stoped by the Royal Alberta Museum where
rebecca was very excit
ed to see the MUCH ABOUT MUNSCH exhibit.
Robert Munsch is in my mind one of the greatest childre
ns authors of all time and happens to be one of Rebeccas
absolute favorites (we have a ver
y large Robert Munsch book collection). We were als able to see the WILD ALBERT exhibit,
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HUMMING BIRDS exhibit, FIRST NATIONS exhibit (one of my faves) an
d much more. Outside the main entrance to the museum in the Goverment House. This h
appens to be
one of the o
ldest building in Edmonton and was origionally buit for the Gov
ernal Generals to use. The building has also been used as a Ventrens Hospital and is currently being used by the government of Alberta to hold meetings and special eve
nts. After lunch in the Museum Cafe we headed off to Lac Le Biche to do a car swap and see where my brother is living and going to school. We stayed at the brand new Ramada where my brother joined us for a swim b
efore we headed off to bed to rest up for
the 13 hour dri
ve hom on Tuesday. On the drive home we saw mountian sheep, cariboo and a very cute dog/part wolf named Timber.
And Rbecca was Finally done!!!!!!
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