Feb 14, Alberta bound

On Feb 14th I took a trip up to Alberta for a ski weekend with Tim. Got to Jasper late afternoon on Friday hoping to get a few runs in , but the skill hill is closed at 4pm, no nite sking. The mountains are spectacular.  Up in good time Saturday morning, big breakfast at the hotel & on the hill by 10am . It began to snow lightly and the temperature was near zero celsius. As the day wore on we received near 6cm of new snow on the hill making the conditions perfect, lots of powder.  The sking was great and only one fall on the last run, soft landing due to new snow. Tim is  very good on skis and he followed his Dad down all the way , making sure  he got there in one piece. We had a good time. Back at the hotel by 4:30 for beer and pizza and hot tub at the end of the day. Enough snow fell to make driving back to hotel tricky.  On the way back to Edmonton on Sunday we saw two large herd of elk on the side of the road, very common and one huge coyote, looked like a wolf.  Left Edmonton for Phoenix on Monday and arrived to temperature of 20 celsius, what a difference.

Feb 18, jasper alberta

Rocky Mountains near Jasper

Elk on the side of the road going into Jasper, i'm standing on the medium, don't want to go any closer.

Tim and I are ready for our first run on the hill.

First run successful, no falls, air is thin up here

Feb 9, Wickenburg days and Rodeo

We drove up to Wickenburg to take in Wickenburg Gold Rush  Days parade and rodeo. Wickenburg is 2000 ft above sea level and it was cool . The pararde was 1 1/2 hours long with lots of horses and many antique cars.There was all the usual events in the rodeo, bronco busting,calf roping ,barrel racing and bull riding.There were many Canadians in the stands as well as competitors.

Feb 9 Wickenburg Rodeo

Rodeo opened with both national anthems.. nice touch as there was a large Canadian  contingent

Husband and wife team competition, wife has to grab ribbon off the calf and run back to finish line

Synchro horse riding

Bucking bronco

Womans calf roping

bull riding.. the start....

...The finish

Feb 9 Wickenburg Days Parade

This was the beginning of the parade.. watusi cattle from Africa

Lots of horses in the parade

This is a real cow .. a lot of bull

Our next RV

Feb 6

We are enjoying the warm weather .. high 70's today.. cool weather coming for the weekend

Feb 3 , Super Bowl Sunday

Super bowl Sunday was filled with activities in the park. A local rv repair shop had an appreciation day and provided a pre game  lunch of pulled pork and all the fixings... even had peach cobbler for desert done in a dutch oven. Very tasty meal.The big screen was set up for the game . In the afternoon it was on the patio and live music provided by the Winglets. Game time was in the rv with Vic and Lyn and Vic brought his special dip with munchies.

Feb 3 , Super Bowl Sunday

They brought in the smoker for the pulled pork, desert in the dutch ovens to the right 

Rec hall.. big screen is all set for the big game 

Some of our Canadian Friends.. getting closer to the food

Ready for the game

Feb 2 Scottsdale Horse Show

We drove over to Scottsdale for the Quarter horse show. The competition was in the handling of the horse thru obstacles or ranch type work like corralling cattle. For the kids they had a boot race. All the kids boots were put in a pile and they raced to find their boots, put them on and run back to the finish. The winner got a new Ipad... Very funny. Enjoy the following pics.

Feb 2, Scottsdale Horse show

Horse had to turn 360 in the small squares.

Boots for the boot race

Run for your boots

Where's mine