Fall 2012 Vacation

We headed off on our 'usual' fall holiday at the end of September. We decided to keep it a bit more simple this year and only went as far as Edmonton. We still managed to pack in quite a bit!

We spent one weekend in Sasaktoon having some fun. We went to the Forestry Farm with Carol and Lil to see the lion cubs. Well, pretty big cubs by now!

Next, we headed to Edmonton to stay with the Lambert's -  David, Andrea and their kids Peter and Corinne. Dean and David were thrilled to have every evening to spend together. We also got to visit the very busy Carli, Bobby and Jaxon and also the very busy Boorman's - Scott, Trish and Nathan. It was a great trip!! Corinne was so awesome with Katie and let little miss boss her around about Barbies every day. What a patient girl! I just love her!

Our last full day, we headed to Calgary with the Lambert's to go to the zoo and do some shopping (David has a bit of a thing for Lego and wanted to go to the Lego store there). The Zoo had a great new penguin exhibit. Jacob was enthralled with them. I'm sure he could have spent the entire day watching penguins dive into the water over and over. 'Cause that's what they did. They would dive, swim to the end of the pool, climb out and walk back to the diving spot. It was cool! I can't believe how close we were to them!

Corinne, Jacob, Katie and Peter

You know, 'cause Dean and David couldn't resist this

 After Edmonton, we went up to Cold Lake to visit with Dean's other Alberta buddy, Shaun. Unfortunately, Shaun's better half, Wendy, was not well and had to head to a conference the next day so we weren't able to visit with her. Shaun did show us his place on the base and we had a great visit. Now that we are all a bit closer together again, we have some fun. Can you say 'guy's weekend'?

From Shaun's, we drove to visit Dean's parents at their new place in Middle Lake, SK (near Humboldt). They have a really nice little place there and it's only a few minutes to walk to the beach and playground. The weather was gorgeous and the kids really enjoyed playing outside. Glad we were there when the trees still had leaves. Stunning! The following week we went for Thanksgiving and fall was over.