Shortly after returning from our roughly 1400km (900 miles) dinosaur tour of SE Alberta and SW Saskatchewan—a tour I am glad we made when we did, as the region has received torrential rains and has flooded badly, washing out sections of the Trans-Canada highway: The town of Maple Creek, SK, which we went through, had [...]
We spent quite a bit of time inside the Interpretive Centre at Dinosaur Provincial Park, and we were all quite surprised to find that there was far more to it than dinosaurs. (Many more dinosaurs are on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, about an hour and a half away, and I think [...]
I’m going to break my post about Dinosaur Provincial Park into two parts: the first on the park and badlands (“the outside”) and the tomorrow’s post on the excellent Interpretative centre (“the inside”). We were absolutely blown away by the park, and how many things there are to do. Next trip we will take the [...]
After the T rex Discovery Centre, we made the scenic drive through the Cypress Hills to Medicine Hat, AB,where we stayed overnight. En route we saw more pronghorn antelopes: and stopped at the Alberta Tourist Info Centre at Walsh, just inside the AB / SK border. We’d stopped there on the way out for a [...]
After picking Jim up at the Greyhound bus station and sleeping in Swift Current Thursday night, we headed to the T Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, SK first thing Friday morning. The boys were uber-excited! I am including lots of pics from the Centre (at the end of this post) as I am sure at [...]
Last Thursday the boys and I headed to Swift Current, SK to meet Jim, who was taking the bus from Regina (about 3 hours E of Swift Current) there after his Prairie Developer conference. We then headed out on a mini-vacation of sorts, heavy on dinos and wildlife and landscapes. Despite all of us catching [...]
Friday afternoon the boys and I attended a workshop on vermicomposting, or worm composting, put on by a lady who runs a small business in Calgary, Worms at Work. There were 30 or so young homeschoolers in attendance—including some friends that we didn’t realize would be there—along with about a dozen Moms. The boys are [...]
This morning the boys and I headed to Calgary’s Firefighter Museum, for their grand-re-opening. Despite the pouring rain and gloomy skies, we had a wonderful time. We listened to speeches, heard some live music, learned local history, talked one-on-one with a friendly “old timer” fire fighter, checked out displays, and so on. The boys got [...]
This past weekend was the Victoria Day, or “May 2-4”, weekend, a little bit of wordplay as the holiday often lands around May 24th, and a “two-four” is slang for a case of 24 beers, which are often enjoyed during this “kickoff to summer” long weekend in Canada. I had a great time gardening and [...]
This afternoon the boys and I attended another Mad Science workshop organized by a homeschooling Mom, as we so enjoyed the one on dry ice and the states of matter a few months back. This time the topic was polymers. Here’s the pictorial diary of events (hover mouse over pics for details): The instructor began [...]