Blair's Blog

The last weekend of the kids summer holidays was a great one, warm and sunny, just like summer should be. The only dark clouds seen were the ones that formed over the kid’s heads when ever someone would mention the forbidden word – sch**l.

We had a great weekend, Friday was my day off work and so Brenda and I took advantage of the fine weather and got the motorbikes out early and headed out for breakfast together. After a nice brunch, we did a bit of riding southeast of Calgary working our way back home. The day was heating up nicely, and with the Calgary kids already back in sch**l, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to head for Lake Sikome. The kids were definitely game and we packed some food and drink and beach toys and inflatable dinghy and beach umbrella and chairs and … eventually got to the lake about 2:00pm. We spent all afternoon and evening just enjoying the water and the beautiful day. On the way home, we picked up pizza and all watched a movie together.

Saturday, Brenda and I got out for another short motorbike ride, but came home by 10:00 to make a mess o’ pancakes and bacon for brunch. The rest of the day ended up being devoted to yard work, but in the evening Steven and I played some online computer games with Uncle Brian and only stayed up a little bit too late.

Today we spent the day at Heritage Park with Uncle Brian. Gram and Gramps met us for lunch at the Wainwright Hotel and took a train ride with us before they had to head off to another engagement. We went on the paddle wheeler, the dangler swings and the caterpillar ride, played some “games of skill” and picked up some fresh produce at the Fall Fair. After we dropped Uncle Brian off at home we picked up some burgers and headed home to have a little backyard picnic.

All told, it was a pretty great way to end the summer holidays … just too bad about sch**l starting tomorrow…