More Canada Trip....

These pictures are out of order. This is inside "the Biggest dinosaur in the World" in Drumheller, AB. Scott was napping with Whitney, so we girls just went. We dragged mom along after we left Wainwright.

Big dino foot

In Edmonton we got together with a lot of my family at Auntie Jean's house. My gran was able to come and it was good to get a visit in, and for the girls to get to know her. She will be 97 in September!

Beautiful Isabel the monkey, was loving the monkey bars at Riverdale Mini Park, where we all went to take family pictures. A girl mom knows took them, and I will post when we get the CD.

The result of asking Isabel and Brennan to hug.

Cousins on the merry-go-round. The good old unsafe equipment is the most fun!

Some Mountain Goats on the road....

Looks comfortable, right?? Whitney didn't sleep very well in the car, but she was happy to be facing forward.

This is a glacier truck wheel.

So, After we left Hinton, we went to visit Auntie Jean in Edmonton. She is nice enought to let us invade her house. We got to visit Gran and see her new apartment in the city. it was hard for her to leave Wainwright, but it seems like a really nice place. We went to West Edmonton Mall and the girls each made a Build-A-Bear. We left the next day for Wainwright. There we met back up with my Dad, and he brought Dan. Peter and Pam arrived and after mom was done work, the whole family was together for the first time in years! We hung out, ate, and looked around all the new development in my old home town. It has grown so much! I never would have believed that there would be so many big stores and restaurants and hotels. On the next day, Saturday, we all went out by the river to take pictures. It was fun. I was able to get some cute outfits for the kids here at Target and so we all coordinated. The weather was very cooperative and we knocked out the pics and then just played. After that we were able to visit a friend of Mom's to see her horses. The rest of the time we pretty much hung out, attempted to do a few house projects and just let the kids play. We ate a lot and were able to see more friends and family. After church on Sunday we headed back to Edmonton for a get-together with more family. it was good to see them all. Scott and I also got to go on a mini-date and meet up with my old friend, Ryan and his new wife at the Cheesecake Factory(scott had already had two slices of pie and ice cream). Ryan and I drove back and forth to college a few times and hung out in the summers. There's nothing like a roadtrip to bond. i am so happy he finally found an awesome girl. Wish they lived closer!!
Mom came up in her car later and the next morning we went to Drumheller. They have a huge dinousaur museum and the whole town is dinosaur themed, so it was fun for the girls. We hit the museum around 6:00 on a monday night and it was DESERTED! It was so nice to just wander and let the kids run around. Before that, while Whitney napped we all went to see some fossil shops and the big dinoasaur which you can climb up in. The girls all loved it. They got some glow-in-the-dark dinos for souveniers. The next day we headed to Calgary and met up with my friend Stacey. We went to the zoo and after about an hour started to get poured on. It was fun but crazy. We left and went to Stacey's.She has 2 little boys. The kids were able to play and we were able to visit and it was fun. Nice to be somewhere with toys instead of an empty hotel room. That night we said good-bye to Grandma CC (my mom) and she went and stayed with her friend Brenda, who then took her to the bus station in the morning so she could head back to Edmonton and get her car. We headed south and made it to Pocatello, ID. We slept and then went home. it was really good to go, and really good to get back. The girls all behaved as well as can be expected at their ages and I think we made some good memories. Hopefully it won't be another 3 years before we come up, we also hope to see more Canadians down this way!