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.
See pictures below
Maverick came over for a visit to my place so he could get practice travelling and visiting other places. He did quite well besides throwing his litter all over the place. See pictures of his visit below. Continue reading Maverick pictures
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
A little late putting the pictures up but better late than never.
I had a nice birthday meal with Geoff and Abril. Continue reading My Birthday
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.
See below for my photos. Continue reading Christmas 2014
Last Sunday I made myself a loaf of bread.
I found this recipe:
http://www.thekitchn.com/noknead-bread-i-35556
It sounded pretty good so I gave it a try and it turned out well.
See pictures of it below. Continue reading Bread
Due to the nice (relative) weather Afsheen and I thought it would be good to go see the Christmas lights at the legislature. It was a nice evening for it.
I got some good practice taking pictures of lights at night. I still need more practice!
See below for my photos.
Continue reading The Lights at the Legislature 2014
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.
See below for my photos Continue reading Grand Canyon!
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.
See the pictures below Continue reading Camping again
On Saturday Geoff, Abril and I randomly decided to go to the Cariwest parade.
It was nice weather for it. It started about 30 minutes late, had a weird break in it that we almost left but was good weather and we had fun.
See the pictures below Continue reading Cariwest Parade
