June began with ScoutJ heading out to camp with his troop in our new one person tent! Surprisingly, the tent is really for two people, but I figure that it is for two people without gear. Once you have a bedroll and backpack in there it is warm and cozy for one. It was a great weekend of cleaning up at camp, hiking, building fires and generally enjoying being a Boy Scout. What a great weekend thanks to our AMAZING Scout leaders.
Next up was my Mommy trip to Montreal to enjoy the Grand
Prix! This year like last year was an amazing race. There were fast cars, track
records, surprising twists of fate and great weather. As the cars engines have
become more fuel efficient, quieter and smaller, ironically they have also
become faster! It is nice to see that Formula One is trying to keep up with the
changing times and adapt to our ongoing understanding how we impact climate
change. I can honestly say, I can see the day when I will be watching a near
silent electric car race that will be as exciting as my first race with v16
thunderously loud engines.
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| FIFA Woman's World Cup Trophy |
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| View from on the track of the winners ceremony! |
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| Enjoying and amazing evening at Cirque du Soliel Kurios |
Upon my return, I had the opportunity to go with GuideJ
on a class field trip to Heritage Park. This was one of the best field trips I
have been on in long time. We had a scavenger hunt of information to find out
from various areas and time periods from around the park. The absolute
highlight of information was that which we gathered was from the lady at the Synagogue.
She was a delightful person, passionate about her role in sharing basic information about her religion and
the incredible sense of community that these rural houses of worship provided
to the pioneers. She had the children’s rapt attention for more than 15 minutes
which is no small feat. For me I most enjoy this field trip as it is highly unstructured
which makes the learning feel organic!
The next weekend we took the boat out for its first trip
of the season. While the water was still quite cool, we enjoyed exploring the
lake from the comfort of the BabyJ. That was except for the one of us who
needed to jump in to the water to push the boat out of some surprisingly shallow water. The
good news is that this would lead to us buying a depth gauge which has come in
super handy!
One of the highlights of each June is the arrival of 4GFamily!
We enjoyed a fun visit before UncleD headed back to Houston, AuntieL and
CousinR headed off to the Crowsnest Pass to be camp cooks while CousinC waited
for SuperStructures to start. This photo of the four of them hamming it up is
one of my favourite!
Once ScoutJ was done exams (two days after GuideJ was
done classes) we were ready to start the party! We headed out to lunch to our
favourite Mexican place for some yummy yummy guacamole. Here I learned that ScoutJ
can do an excellent impression of the invisible boy/Flat Stanley when he nearly
comes face to face with girl from school! Ha, silent ScoutJ is a sight to
behold.
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| GuideJ learns to cross stitch! |
Did you know that you can dye hair with gel food
colouring? Well, it turns out that is really very simple to dye your daughters
light front hair with pink food colouring, some plastic wrap and gloves! I must
say, somehow pink streaks are really very attractive.
Monday, June 30th was the start of SAIT Super Structures
camp for CousinC and ScoutJ. How fantastic that the boys could have the opportunity
to hang out together all week while at summer camp. It turns out that this year’s
shepherd’s pie at lunch day one was a little lack luster. Accordingly then, the month
came to an end with a trip to Peter’s for milkshakes for the kids!
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| Shakes for my friends! |
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