The chain of events goes something like this:
1) Brad and his family travel to the fine (but chilly) city of Calgary to visit with a handful of folks (of to whom they happen to be related) who choose to live there for some reason, and also to attend a performance of Cirque du Soleil. [...]

Between work and home, I know waaaaaaay too much about a certain television show called So You Think You Can Dance. It doesn’t bother me that my friends an colleagues enjoy this particular programming — though I think Chris had it right when he suggested that a drinking game to go along with it would [...]

Much to everyone’s amazement, the little Claire Bear took to camping like her namesake, rooting the bushes for tasty morsels and hibernating until well past seven in the morning — and she put down roots in the wilderness as if she’d been born there. The kid, her dad is pleased to announce, is [...]

We spent the long weekend in Saskatoon. Now I’m trying to catch up. In the meantime, there are stacks of new pictures of both the trip and the post-sunny weekend garden growth in the gallery. Spring pictures are always so colourful.

five… (the countdown to seven years!)
I thought I’d celebrate the seventh anniversary of a driving trek through the mountains to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, and make a pilgrimage back. I caught a late flight to Abbotsford last night and spent the evening in the local Ramada pondering the significance and coincidence of [...]

If the only way you keep track of us is through this blog, you would have had no way to know we were going on vacation. I try to keep my travel plans fairly hush-hush when it comes to the blog as far as pre-trip hype at least. Upon our return, then I [...]

When we were in London a few months back, we spent a few nights in a “self catered” apartment. Basically, that means we had our own kitchen and we could cook our own food.
But we were in London… on vacation… so why?
We did (just to speed things along in the mornings) stop [...]

Phase three of the Wandering Week began yesterday as I found myself adding another three hundred clicks onto the odometer and heading South East towards the lower corner of the province. (Did I mention it took us nine more hours over seven hundred kilometers to get from Penticton to Calgary on Sunday? Oh, it did.) [...]

We’re spending a sunny morning in Penticton, recuperating from a drive-from-hell. The wedding is at three, so that gives us a few more hours to enjoy the beach before the social obligations begin, and another few hours for Karin to catch up with her Harry Potter after having picked up her copy on Main [...]

… or at least I was.
Sparkle and I loaded up the car and drove three hours south-west of Edmonton for a three night camping trip with my parents and the sibs. The weather could be categorized as variable: the first night was pouring rain and hail, the second windy, the third pleasant.
I caught a [...]

As June comes to a close and summer is now a full week on, photos…
Work brought me down to Lethbridge for a couple nights, and I took advantage of the free time (and the fact the Lethbridge Lodge is virtually hanging from the edge of the valley overlooking the train bridge) to go for a [...]

I was reading something this afternoon and something jogged my memory:
We were shopping in one of the larger department stores on Oxford Street in London and we stumbled across a large, central display from a company called Edible. The display was tastefully and stylishly arranged with a variety of exotic “foods” from around the [...]