Royal Tyrrell Museum

Pauline, Maurice & I went to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Poor John had to hang out with Paisley, although that did give him the opportunity to watch Saturday morning soccer. The museum is fantastic. A huge amount of money obviously went into that. We probably could have spent even more time in it than we did.

Drumheller 2011

We decided to take a trip to Drumheller this weekend. None of us had been, so it seemed like it might be fun. We were able to rent a little bungalow attached to the Heartwood Inn so that the little dog could come. Because she is still healing she couldn't stay at a kennel. I think she enjoyed the trip, and was a really good little dog for the most part. We managed to tire her out each day.

Drumheller is a strange, strange place. Possibly even stranger than Red Deer, I don't know. We had fun anyway, although the trip had some less than stellar moments.

For example, we had just merged onto the highway to Vulcan when a car going the wrong way drive down the highway toward us. Then we stopped for a pee break in Strathmore. I won't explain the whole situation here, but let's just say John just about knocked me over with the car, accidently of course. I hurt my back, and unfortunately it bothered me the whole weekend. It's still sore on occasion, but at least the spasms have lessened.

Here are some pictures from Horse Thief Canyon.

We crossed the Bleriot Ferry as well, one of the oldest cable ferries in Canada, and the last one of 13 that crossed the Red Deer River.

The scenery was equally gorgeous on the way back to Drumheller.

Ultra!

John & Jennifer decided to run the Lost Souls Ultra Marathon this September. They did the 50k, but there's also the 100k and 100 mile runs. They started off really well, running ultra fast, so we were hoping they would have no trouble beating their time goal. However, about 3/4 of the way in, Jennifer developed a serious IT band issue and was forced to walk for quite a while before she could run again. About 2/3 of the way in John developed terrible issues with his stomach and couldn't eat anything for ages. Not a good situation when you have to run for 7-8 hours.

Fortunately, despite these setbacks both were able to rally, and came in under the 8 hour time goal they had set. Yay! And both liked the experience enough to sign up for next year's race as well.

See how good they looked at the end?

And this is what they got for finishing: