Home home on the road

Haha an amusing sight that you don't see everyday. I didn't see any deer or antelope playing tho??

Ice Magic Update

I have been hunting for the results of the ice competition, and there doesn't seem to be any pictures to go with the winning sculptures so I can't link you, but I can show my own pix :-) 

 Trying to get Ahead 1st Place

Lady Bug 2nd Place

                                                               My Sun 3rd Place

This Spells Trouble Fairmont's Choice 

 One Carver, One Hour, One Block Of  Ice Winner at Lake Louise Inn

Ice Magic Festival 2012.... complete.

Lake Louise Ice Festival

 Thankfully the weather warmed up, because this weekend wouldn't have been as fun if it had stayed -30!!

We ate at the hotel, and right outside our window there was an ice carving competition, One Carver, One Hour, One Block. The guy we were watching cut his block in half, stacked them on top of each other and starting carving. The theme this year was a "play on words" so he was making a "C" turtle. Very kewl!

 Snow flying.... the turtle starts to take form

 almost done...

 Outside our Hotel

 Then we headed to Chateau Lake Louise to see the rest of the ice sculptures.

 At the Ice Bar

 Looking thru the castle window

 Lake Louise

 We got a bottle of wine included in our hotel room fee!

 On Sunday the sun was shining so the ice took on a whole new look!

 close-up of the C turtle

 this was a polar bear face so cute!

 the winner of the one hour competition

 thru the path Lake Louise again

 only 2 hours left til the competition ends. They had 36 hours to carve 15 blocks of ice.  

 This was "freeze"

 seriously! an ice cape! these guys are amazing!

out of the pot into fire! "these words spell trouble!" the poor melting snowman. We don't know who won yet, it hasn't been posted. 

Rocky mountain bagel co.

Heading home after Lake Louise, fun weekend the Ice Sculptures were amazing! I'll Post pix when we get home!

Tooth Fairy's last stand!

Yesterday Maddie had her wisdom teeth taken out. We went to Dr Goos who was awesome and sweet to Maddie. The whole clinic was awesome, she was taken into the room at 9am, given drugs to make her dream a sweet dream, and was done n about 20 minutes! All 4 teeth. No complications, just a groggy Maddie after the fact!

When we got home, she slept.... had some soup, slept, had some soup, slept.... you get the idea. Lucky kept her feet nice and warm the whole day. When Maddie went to bed ( to sleep more ) for the night, she packaged up her teeth and wrote a note in case the tooth fairy was coming..... one last time!

The Tooth fairy did come... and she ( he ) was very good to Maddie! 

Caterpillar snow plow

I have never seen one of these before! I was driving to pick up Maddie and this big semi was in front of me, then it started to slide sideways on the road! That's what it looked like but then on closer inspection..... it pulled a caterpillar move and slid the back half of it over to the second lane. The front part of the truck also had a shovel, so between the front and back, it was shovelling both lanes at once! When it came to the over pass, it pulled back together to form a straight line again!!! Not to mention the fact that it was lit up and blinking like a circus exhibit!! It was the coolest thing ever! ( Now that I know it wasn't sliding off the road with me behind it! )

so that's how they do that

You know those signs during Christmas time for Christmas lights service. Ever wonder how they get the Christmas lights on and off? I looked out my window today and saw a sneak peak of how they do it!

Favorite Pastime

 Today I shared one of my favourite past times with Dean. He bought a new bread maker yesterday. Dean got the first loaf ready set for Sunday morning, we awoke to the smell of fresh bread baking....

 I snuck downstairs to peak....

Opened the lid, and the smell of bread puffed out....

 I got the bread board all ready, choose a Columbo.....

.... and had a wonderful breakfast with Dean. Just like many many years ago when I used to do this... fresh bread, butter knife, butter and my favourite detective!

Ringing in 2012

New Years Eve! Maddie was going to a Rave and she was cute as a button in her blue dreads and blue costume that she perfected minutes before leaving!

We asked Ang to bring Looney's so we could play the game CLR that my Aunt taught us this summer, we joked about it being admission, as it turns out it was- we kicked their butts oopsy :-)

Ang and Nate

Me and Dean

Midnight! Happy New years!!!

                                     

Living on the Fringe

 Our friends Annabelle and Cliffy have a connection to one of our favorite TV shows. Cliff's son Warren is the unit production manager for The Fringe!! We have been wanting to meet him for some time, and finally we got to. Annabelle invited us for New Years Eve Brunch with Warren, wife Leesa and Daughter Ruby. Dean and I are such geeky people when it come to our TV shows, when we were in New York we were seeking out places that CSI had been, or Vegas, and when we watch the shows we do the reverse and watch where we've been! So you can imagine we were beside ourselves to actually meet someone in the field!! We googled Warren and found all the shows he has had his hand in, we had quite a few of them, Final Destination 3, Category 7, and Butterfly Effect, to name a few. So us being the geeks were are.... we brought the movies with us to see if Warren would sign them for us. Not knowing what kind of person he would be, we kept the movies hidden. But within minutes of meeting Warren and Leesa, it was obvious, these 2 were awesome people, and so, so personable! Warren asked if we knew of the show The Fringe, and we jumped up "Yes! We love it!!!" He said to Annabelle, oh damn, if I had known they were fans I would brought the discs, we said actually... we have them, ..... here..... would you sign them for us? He smirked and said of course, but we waited to the end of our visit to give him a pen. He told us humurous stories of all the people ( stars ) he has met, worked with and we could have listened to his stories all day! Warren said every one of the cast of the Fringe is so nice, down to earth, and if we bumped into them they would gladly take a photo or give an autograph. Good to know, now I wouldn't be scared if I saw them in Vancouver where filming is! My favourite story was when Warren met Harrison Ford. This was his idol, and when he was a kid he had the hat, the whip and named his cat Indianna. So when he finally got to meet his idol.... lol well let me tell you. Warren was on set, about 6:30 am the food table was just filled up for the day, brownies warm from the oven, so Warren all alone in the room, chose a brownie, and then thinking "I need Milk" filled a glass of milk. Then he feels a presence behind him and hears the tink tink of a stirring cup, he turns around and is face to face with said idol.... Harrison Ford! Left speechless he mutters out, "Hi Harrison, I'm Warren, assistant director" Harrison says "Hi Warren" Warren says "I'd shake your hand, but as you can see it's full of brownie!" Harrison says " I see that Warren" so Warren puts down his milk, and falling into the starstruck category, makes a fist and taps Harrison Ford on the shoulder!!!!! Later that day at the soup truck, Harrison is sitting in a car waiting for the next scene to start, and Warren is at the truck, he gets his soup and is eating it and sees thru a small opening in the steamed up front window, Harrison looking at him... Warren already nervous after his morning tap, is thinking "OMG, what does he want? maybe soup?" so while he is eating he makes, as Warren says "the universal sign for want some soup?" which consists of the nodding of your head, whilst spooning soup into your mouth. Harrison gives him a thumbs up, so Warren meekishly walks over with a bowl of soup, Harrison rolled the window down a crack big enuff for the soup bowl, and nodded thanx and rolled the window back up. (Probably trying to avoid another shoulder tap! )
The stories went on, so entertaining!!! Leesa is a set designer and she has worked with Jack Black, which made Maddie very jealous! It was such an awesome afternoon! Warren ended up taking our Fringe seasons and said he'll get the whole cast to sign it and send it back!!!! Yep, we squealed with delight at that!!

Warren thinking very hard and smirking  hugely at what to write on our DVD's . He wrote a few  parts of the stories we had heard, one was, "Want some soup?"

Dean, Warren and Me holding The Fringe Discs! 

Maddie and Warren, she's holding her favourites, Butterfly Effect and Final Destination 

Ruby got a build a bear, that Leesa had to sew and stuff, and she also got a crochet kit. Leesa wan't sure how to  crochet only knit, and Maddie just learning picked up the hook and crocheted a little scarf  for Ruby's doll! Maddie was a hit, looking like a cat and all, Ruby quite took to her! 

Annebelle and Warren... cheers!