Coolies..

After a heavy night on the pop, we went for an investigative trek down into the coolies.. The plan was just to go down to the river, but we found a couple of parks for the kids to play in as well. It was a really good day out. It's great to have time off at the weekend, so that we can do stuff as a family. Days off in the week just involve sitting around normally as the kids are at school. Role on the summer, as it won't matter what day I get home as the kids are off for 12 weeks..

We parked the car just of the side of the Crowsnest trail and walked off towards the giant railway bridge that spans the coolies. On the way we came across a nature building which we are going to go back to, once we get rid of the dog. It looks like it will be good for the kids to learn about the local habitat. We walked along side the river, went under the bridge, to a spot were I could teach the kids the art of skimming stones.. They lost interest pretty quick and taught themselves the art of dropping boulders through the rapidly thawing river ice. The dog went ankle deep in the river, but soon got out once she felt the temperature.

We walked across to the park and the kids went up the climbing wall and played on the slide. After a good hour we walked back to the car and went off to find a restaurant for our dinner. This was courtesy of Grandad Wall and we gave the choice of venue to Jake. He chose Boston Pizza. He has been bobbing on about going there for the entire 6 months we have been here. It was nice and we stuffed ourselves silly.

I think the summer will be great, if today was anything to go by.. Especially with both sets of Grandparents coming.. Goodbye the snow and role on the heat.....