More Snow - Where is Spring?...

18 March - Friday Ralston School was closed for a teacher training day much to the delight of Tegan and Fraser - no school. So Noo, Kay and I took all the children to Medicine Hat Leisure Centre swimming. We had a fab time playing in the waves, surfing on the floats, jumping off the diving board, diving through legs and going down the indoor flume. After two hours we decided that we had all had enough and we were suitably wrinkly skinned. So we all went to a garden centre situated by Medicine Hat airport, much to Fraser's delight, to have lunch - it was almost like an English coffee shop - not bad.

Saturday Fraser had his skating lesson, Tegan at this pointed decided not to attend this week so went off with Chris to a friends house to watch the England v Ireland six nations rugby match. Fraser was on the ice for 1 1/2 hours having great fun playing hockey. We then joined Chris to watch the rugby. Tegan and I left the rugby for an afternoon of pampering in Medicine Hat. We went to a salon called Plush where Tegan had a pedicure and manicure - much to her amusement and delight, she choose red for her toes and blue for her nails. After being pampered we visited Claire's Accessories and made a few purchases and finished off with an ice cream - one very happy little girl. This afternoon was Tegan's treat in-lieu of us buying Fraser his Calgary Flames hockey top recently.

Snow, snow and more snow - Saturday night there was yet more snow - we almost thought that the Spring was going to arrive as some of the snow had thawed, however since Saturday we have had snow most days. Snow arrived in Ralston on the 17 November 2010 and has not gone since - it really would be nice to see some grass now and to stop shovelling the paths. The gophers are going to be very confused as they dig their way through the snow and pop their heads up.



Monday night saw the last Icemen's game prior to the BHL tournament which takes place next week. Unfortunately they lost 3-0 - but Fraser was happy to watch as always.

BATUS Ski Meet - Tuesday Tegan and Fraser had the day off school as we all went to Hidden Valley along with many others from BATUS as the mountain was ours for the day. A down hill race took place throughout the day as part of the Commanders Cup (a departmental competition that takes place throughout the year involving many sports). Chris had signed up as part of the Icemen team and I had a go just for the fun of it - I came second in the ladies veterans with Sam winning - mind you I think it may only have been us two who fitted into the category! It was a great day with Fraser going to his favourite place - the jump park and Tegan enjoying her skiing. It did snow all day with quite a hairy drive to the mountain in the morning but we all had a fantastic day.