What we've been up to

Since it been nearly a month since we last posted I'll do a quick update post. I was having problems with blogger getting the pictures uploaded, seemed to take about 4 tries to get them all up. It seems to randomly decide not to upload certain pictures. Anyways ...


On July 27th we went to the Robin Mark worship concert. Lisa had won the backstage passes so here we are with Robin and the gang. From left to right is Mike Leblanc from CKVN; Michelle (the whistle player), Lisa, Scott, Robin, the bass player, the drummer :), and missing from the photo was the keyboardist ... who showed up later.

Lisa was more interested in talking to Michelle about whistling than Robin so that's what she did for the 30 mins or so we were up there with the band. I talked to Robin and the guys for most of the time ... for a while we talked all about potatoes - the Irish love their potatoes. They were especially interested when I told them that the big producers around here are Japanese and Dutch ...

A view of the concert from the front row ...


The very next day we moved into our new house .... exhausting weekend. Anyways, we did it. We've been in the new place for 4 weeks today. Its still a work in progress but we're sure it'll be ready for the house-warming we want to have in September. With my work slowing down now I have more energy to work on the house and get things in order.

And finally we celebrated our first anniversary by going out for lunch at a cafe out in the country. They produce most of the food they serve. We had an amazing view of the flower garden and the strawberry patch while we ate. Unfortunately the camera battery died just before we were going to ask the waitress to take a picture of us!

Steam Engine through Taber

Another thing that happened was a steam engine through Taber in mid-July. We were not able to get tickets but at least we were able to see it. It ran from Medicine Hat to Lethbridge across the high level bridge (there was an earlier picture of this in February). It is 1.6kms long and 96m high. They claim it is the biggest of its kind in the world. Amazing too because it was built almost 100 years ago. Hopefully the video works for you (press the play button in the bottom left, it'll take a while for it to load depending on your connection).

Pig Chase!

A couple of weeks ago, the youth at our church hosted a pig chase at the farm of a family from church. They dug a trench and got it good and muddy, and in pairs, we had to get all four legs of each pig off the ground. I had a few battle scars from that - good times! :)