Friday, July 27, 2012

time for an update

1. The Monday after our Confederation Park adventure was super duper hot. We were all dying from the heat, so we loaded up and went to Seebe for some much needed cliff jumping. Haillee Litousky (Bryanne's little sister) just graduated from high school and is now living at my house for the summer. It was her first day in Calgary so I convinced her to come with us. When we got there it was a lot cooler out and the mosquitoes were driving us crazy! Haillee and I ended up being the last two to jump in. I'm glad we did though.




The scenery was gorgeous.


2. Some time in the boiling hot week we had I went for a run in 30 degree weather. I have never sweat more profusely in my entire life. I was glistening and slippery from head to toe. Oh and I wanted to die.


3. Wednesday July 11 was Lita's 26th birthday! To celebrate I hopped on the train...


...and made my way to the Stampede to meet the birthday girl there. We walked around the park for a bit, got some food, then went to the Grandstand Show. Jason Lee met us there and we ended up in the standing room. It's a lot cheeper to stand than to get sitting tickets. We Lita and Jason watched the chuck wagon races (not my thing) while I sat down on the ground bored. I just took some pictures to appease my boredom for at least a couple minutes.


I was nearly stepped on several times, but that's what I get for sitting in the standing room.


Then the show began and I absolutely LOVED it! Next time I think I should either stand closer to the centre of the stage or get a sitting ticket. It was still AMAZING from where I stood.

The Young Canadians put on a fantastic show. There was only one part in the program where I was seriously concerned for those kids' safety. That was when they brought out a jump for motorcycles.


One thing is for certain, I would NEVER let my children near that jump. There were some pretty young kids singing and dancing right next to the jump and landing site. I cringe at the thought of even one thing going wrong and injuring those children.


Besides my safety concern, it was pretty cool to watch. Then Paul Brandt flew in singing and playing his guitar.


Honestly one of my favourite parts of the whole show was when some Aboriginal people performed one of their traditional dances to a slow song Paul Brandt was singing. It was so beautiful and I was seriously about to cry.


 Happy 100th Birthday, Calgary Stampede! Happy 26th Birthday, Lita!!!


4. I seriously can't get over how high the river has been for so long! It was particularly fast one day, so someone thought to wakeboard on it haha.


5. I am extremely picky when it comes to shoes (high heels are a different case) so when I buy some I try to make them last as long as possible. Like...seriously...as loooong as possible. This pair was no exception. I finally threw them away. I was so proud of myself.



6. On Friday July 13, Lita and I both bought new running clothes and we completed our first 10 mile run together.


Then we went to a YSA Stampede activity. There was a pancake breakfast and a petting zoo. So cute!





From the activity Lita and I went straight to Joey Crowfoot for some much deserved dessert.


 7. Instead of a Monday, my ward had FHE the following Wednesday (the 18th). The reason for that was Shakespeare in the Park doesn't perform on Monday nights and the FHE committee wanted to go to that. I biked down to Prince's Island Park with Kobe in my backpack. It was such a beautiful day and the play was SO GOOD! If you have a chance to go this year, I highly recommend it. They did a fantastic job.

8. For FHE on the 23rd, we played human battleship. Lita, Adrian, and I made our own little neon ship.
The game got a little lot out of hand and Lita got hit in the face with a rogue ball. After that game was over, people started playing volleyball so I joined in. We played for two hours and the next day my forearms were pretty beaten up. I still have the bruises.



9. Cats are strange, strange creatures. I was cleaning the bathroom of a family who own a really cute cat. I opened the shower curtain, and there was Rexie sitting in the bathtub. She scared me but it was so funny to see her there.


Then I cleaned the master bathroom and when I came out, she was sitting in a suitcase on the bed.


10. On Tuesday I went on a 14.8 mile run. I was supposed to (and should have) only go 12 but I wanted to make a loop and not just run 6 and turn around. Another reason I went so far is because I really love Nose Hill and I wanted to run across it. I also wanted to impress Burns because one time I said I wanted to *some day* run a marathon and he was kind of surprised that I wanted to run so far. So yeah, when I told him how far I had gone, he was very impressed.

The last 3 miles were the worst. I just wanted to get home and it was almost 5 more miles more than I had ever run. I was really hurting that night. The next morning I could hardly move and I would stretch any chance I got at work.


11. Alex wrote a blog post about Living Unbound and I was inspired. I had a huge craving for a campfire and some roasted hot dogs, so instead of waiting for a weekend like I usually would have, I decided to invite the fam to Bowness Park for said craved fire on Wednesday night. I'm so glad we were all able to make it out. It was also a great night to have before the day of my wisdom teeth extraction. That post is coming up next!

Kobe and Me waiting for everyone to get there.
Oh and we didn't think to bring a can opener so Daryn punctured the can of pie filling half way with one of the hot dog skewers. It worked out pretty well and we had cherry pies.


1 comment:

  1. We do so many things together! :) I nodded my head in pure agreement when you said the last 3 miles were the hardest. Good job!!!

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