Some photos from a cold Christmas in Edmonton.
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Over Christmas we went down to Calgary for a bit. The roads were very bad on the way there. We saw many cars in the ditch but we went slow and made it safely. A few pictures from Christmas and Skully and some beers Afsheen got me for Christmas. They were all very tasty. There are also pictures from Edmonton Christmas as well. Click to see the pictures
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Afsheen and I had a great time on our summer vacation. We first went to London and I got to meet some her family and see Stonehenge!
We then flew to Barcelona, took a high speed train to Madrid. A bus to Granada to see Alhambra. We then made our way back to London where we did the studio tour of the Harry Potter sets and back to Canada.
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On the May long weekend, Afsheen, Geoff, Abril, Maverick and I went down to Calgary to see my parents. Maverick did pretty well in the car. He had a spray in his carrier that helped calm him down and he slept most of the time. We saw Afsheen’s friend at Chinook Mall and had a good time with my parents. I took a few pictures of Skully and Maverick. They mostly avoided each other or hissed and growled if they were close.

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2015 May Long Weekend

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Over the Christmas break Afsheen and I went to the science center to see the Indiana Jones event. It was quite fascinating and lots of information about the movies and archeology as well. See the pictures below. Continue reading Indiana Jones →

I had a nice relaxing Christmas this year. I went down to Calgary to visit Jaclyn and Pedro. We made sure Skully got her required attention. Played games and relaxed.
We went to visit Stuart and Stacey at Dead Man’s Flats then did a hoodoo walk with their dogs in Banff. We also did a walk around my parents’ neighbourhood.

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I just got back from the Grand Canyon for a 6 day backpacking trip.
I went with a company called Wildland Trekking. There was 4 of us plus 1 guide and 1 guide in training.

You can see more details of it here:
http://www.wildlandtrekking.com/grand-canyon/backpacking-trips/rim-to-rim-to-rim.html

We went Down the South Kaibab Trail (rim 1) then up and down the the North Kaibab Trail (rim 2) and then up the Bright Angel Trail (rim 3).
It is pretty spectacular and amazing how quickly the vegetation and rocks change all the time.
We had pretty much perfect backpacking weather. I wore a t-shirt most of the time. The last night was a little chilly but manageable.

After my trip my parents picked me up and I got to see their new place in Tucson and relax for a couple days before coming back to winter in Edmonton.

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Geoff, Abril and I decided to go camping again.
We tested out my new tent which was snug but fit us pretty well. It seemed to work well but there was no rain so tough to know that part!

On the way to the camp site there were bison on/near the road that we got some good pictures of.

We went on a long 17 km hike on Saturday. It was fun but not easy. It was pretty hot out and there were tonnes of mosquitoes and maybe no-see-ums. When you moved yours arms well walking you could feel the bugs hit your arm. We drenched our self often in mosquito repellant to help. We found one nice place for a lunch that was relatively bug free and we could sit on a log. We didn’t see any bison on the trail but lots of their poop! We did see a couple of rabbits.

We were exhausted after our trip and relaxed in the evening. We saw this weird thing moving at the campsite next to us. A squirrel had a furry blanket or something and was underneath and moving it.

Sunday morning we packed up and headed home.

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