Day 5 - 7

On the road again as we pack up from Missoula. Still not sure what it is about this place that we like, but it still has a strange allure for us. Maybe it's just far enough away and different enough to feel like a vacation. Maybe it's the fact that we always leave wanting to do something else. Whatever it is exactly, we will be back.We got on the road before 11 and went hard at it, driving some 500km plus. This put us on the Columbia river,...

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Day 3 and 4

With the driving done, we start to unwind in Missoula. Dora had a 17km run to start her relaxation, which it was. A pleasant run along one of the rivers that runs through the town. The Clark and Bitterroots both flow through the town. After Dora returned, we headed out for a picnic at Caras Park and an afternoon on the Carousel and Dragons Hallow, a wooden playground for kids. Despite the hot weather we played outside for a good 3hrs. Good...

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Day 1 and 2

Well off we go. A good start as we leave Lethbridge by noon. Then we hit the border, looks short. Oh wait... Those are bikers. 12 of them. So much for a short line. After a half hour we're on our way and stop at St. Marys to grab 2 grilled cheese sandwiches to go. A half hour later we're on the road again. Logans pass here we come. No sooner than we get to the other side we get a revisit of the sandwich. Evan pukes. And a good one at that!...

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East Glacier - Two Medicine

Last weekend we headed South to do some camping.  This was the first time since last year that the whole family were together and camping at the same time.  Evan was 2 months old about this time last year and camping did not go as planned.  A lot more pacing outside the tent than sleeping inside.  What a difference 11 months makes! I don't know why it is, but the 2 to 1 ratio of Adults to Kids sure makes things easier.  Kudos to Dora's parents who came down to babysit, I mean camp with us!  Their help sure was appreciated...

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Hamlet - A sock puppet story

I was helping some students get this project off their computer for the summer.  Youtube has that limit for length, so I used Vimeo which is a Mb limit rather than length.  I enjoyed the project so much that I thought I would post it for you to look at.  Pretty sweet eh? Hamlet - A puppet story from mark on Vim...

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Balls gone Bad

Golf balls.  There, now you can put your mind at ease.  I'm making reference to the large golf ball sized hail stones that rained down on the Calgarians this week.  Surprisingly, I was in Cow Town during Stampede week.  Although I didn't partake in any pancake breakfast, I did enjoy some of the hospitality.  But I get ahead of myself. After finding out that Fernie doesn't run their downhill on Mondays, we decided that Calgary...

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The Combo Deal.

On Monday I managed to get out to the Drywood with my brother for a quick climb.  With both of us with young families, it's been a challenge to get out, so this was a nice treat.  We decided to bring our bikes to make the approach quicker and plus, the ride out is always a nice treat. From 2010_07 Drywood The Cliff face was nice and dry, with no evidence of snow.  Not sure how many people have been out lately, the trail was overgrown...

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Canada Day / Evans Birthday

Like many of you out there, we participated in the celebration on Canada Day.  Raymond is like the "bread and butter" for us, especially with the tradition of tossing candy.  What better than kids, candy and horse poop to make a day complete! The fun part is the number of 1/4 Japanese kids running around.  I think that if you were add them all up, we'd have just over 2 Asians!  You've got our kids and my brothers...

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Old footage. 2008 Broken Group

I've been cleaning up my computer a bit.... making room getting rid of stuff.  Had this raw footage from our 2008 broken group kayak trip and decided to do something with it.  Here it is...

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The haircut

Before I post our Canada Day affair, I thought I should talk about the haircut.  Evan has hair.  Lots of it.  Compared to Logan at 1 year, Evan is a regular surfer dude.  Dora has enjoyed growing it out and I still pretend that Evans name is Brodie (just kidding... or am I?)  Well the day finally came for a cut and the shears did some serious work.  He looks like a different boy with no hair!  See for yourselves. ...

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Evans Birthday - The Sunday

Well Evan hit the big 1.0 on Sunday and I posted from the trail while we were hiking.  The birthday party was on Canada day and I will get those pictures up soon, but I thought I would post a few more pictures from the day in Waterton.   As mentioned already, it was an interesting day with that whole crazy deer thing.  As it Happens interviewed someone about these Belligerent Deer we encountered.  Besides the hike we...

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