A Trip Out To The Toon

As I mentioned last week I decided to take a last minute vacation back to Saskatoon last week...

We headed out Sunday afternoon for what ended up being a long 8 1/2 hour trip from Calgary to Saskatoon. The roads were really nice in Alberta (although it was overcast so there was no scenery) but once we got into Saskatchewan they got a little bit scary...

The driver, my cousin Ronaye, had this look on her face for three hours as we crept along at 30-40km per hour!

But we made it through and on Monday I went for the ride to drop the boys off at school and to check out their new school :)

We spent most of the rest of the day... and a bit of each day for the rest of the week keeping ourselves entertained with some kick ass cable...

An on going pole position challenge (I did leave with the high score)...

A few games of monopoly on the palm pilot... and of course a few rounds of poker!

The boys spent a a few hours playing games as well... they were both glued to the XBox playing halo and looking like a couple of pilots with their head gear on :)

On Wednesday morning after we dropped the boys off for school Craig and Ronaye took me for a drive out to Alvena to see their new house and dance hall.

Their house is the very first one you hit when you come into Alvena on the back road so it was the first thing that I spotted!

We made a quick stop at the lil co-op to see what was going on and to buy a snack.

It wasn't huge but it had the necessities and from the looks of it if you really need something brought in then you can special order it for delivery on Thursday!

Our next stop was at the dance hall. Ronaye and Craig recently purchased it and we were able to get inside for a little tour...

The heat wasn't turned on yet so it was a chilly little place to visit (I almost got frostbite on my toes) but we met the old guy who uses the place right now for a workshop and took a little bit of a look around.

It was a really nice visit... I got a bunch of visiting in and had a lot of fun hanging out with the Shandlers all week.

We got out on Friday for some sunshine and a quick game of hockey...

And ended off the visit with a trip to the Shadbolts :)

It was a good visit and it was so wonderful to see my boys and to hang out with my cuz again... but also really nice to get home and to cuddle up with the cats :)