Edmonton travels

Up in Edmonton we spent time with our dear friend Ian, and stayed with friends just outside town. We played in the local playground, and took a trip up to Elk Island Provincial Park where the bison roam free and spring was trying ever so hard to spring. The kids couldn't believe their luck that there was still snow to be found but the locals were rather sick of the stuff by now. Ian drove us down the very straight road to Calgary and we admired the acres of farmland peppered with nodding donkeys. Issie has been reading ahead in class and told us that they are really called pumpjacks. Smart alec.