160 ACRES

Lovely time, busy week. In the olden days if you were in the Mounties for 5 years you got 160 acres at the end. Paul & I signed up, so let's wait & see. Went to High River where they make loads of TV & Movies Inc Heartland, Fargo, Unforgiven & Superman III. Took in a drive-in film at Gas Alley museum and watched Cat, Sophia & El jumping. Lin's got a new friend for her selfies. Off to Portland tomorrow, rain, rain, rain.

Fwd: WAITING FOR MY 160 ACRES

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From: Wally Spooner <wallyspooner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:27 AM
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Lovely time, busy week. In the olden days if you were in the Mounties for 5 years you got 160 acres at the end. Paul & I signed up, so let's wait & see. Went to High River where they make loads of TV & Movies Inc Heartland, Fargo, Unforgiven & Superman III. Took in a drive-in film at Gas Alley museum and watched Cat, Sophia & El jumping. Lin's got a new friend for her selfies. Off to Portland tomorrow, rain, rain, rain.

WAITING FOR MY 160 ACRES

Lovely time, busy week. In the olden days if you were in the Mounties for 5 years you got 160 acres at the end. Paul & I signed up, so let's wait & see. Went to High River where they make loads of TV & Movies Inc Heartland, Fargo, Unforgiven & Superman III. Took in a drive-in film at Gas Alley museum and watched Cat, Sophia & El jumping. Lin's got a new friend for her selfies. Off to Portland tomorrow, rain, rain, rain.

HOODOO ON ANT?

Spent the night in Banff, which is a lovely town in a Rockies valley, complete with sulphur spas, quaint shops & bars. Nice walk around the mountains and saw the hoodoos which are eroded rock formations that project from the bedrock. Went on to Lake Miniwanka (say nothing) which is a flooded valley covering a village and was part of a hydroelectric project. Ant took the voodoo sour apple sweet challenge - you can see the result. He lasted about 45 seconds. Ant & the boys went home in the sports car, the girls in the truck. After about 45 mins of breaking the speed limit Ant caught up with Cat, even though we started at the same time. "What the f..." said A, & the pedal went to the floor, we arrived home 26 seconds before the girls. Ant's put the sports car up for sale.

Is there a hoodoo on Ant, only time will tell.

LAKE LOU WALSKI

Been lovely here all week. Finally recovered from the excesses of BA upgrade but not from jet lag. Watched Cat & girls jumping their steeds, v.good but dopey me failed to take a single photo - duh!

Did I say good weather, on skiday it turned a bit gloomy & by the time we arrived at resort, rain & slush plus low cloud. Never mind, intrepid family B & Walski set off, double knee braces & all, I don't know if family B knew what they were letting themselves in for. Every time I fell, couldn't get up, Fam B had to drag me up. You can see the results -grimacing faces behind me and Ell collapsed in the snow. I think I exhausted them, but they were too polite to say. Pocket rocket Soph is a demon, wiped me out without even breaking stride. I rejoined the geriatrics looking at the lovely view, I tucked them in and they were fine. We all spent a session in the Banff mountain Spa, v exhilarating - 39degC water & 0degC air. Girls rejected my Speedos, guess they will have to wait for cruise.

LOOK FOR THE BISON

Went out for a run down to the Canadian plains. Big sky and it is all of that. Started at Elbow Falls which was just thawing but still had spectacular frozen bits. Linda slithered a bit but all good. We then went down to Black Foot territory, I knew I should have washed better, but with the stiff back, I can't reach my feet.

We reached the centre at Head-Bashed-In (I think that's what it's called), which is a museum about the history of the Indians & how they used to harvest the bison by persuading them to jump over the cliff & B their H in. They did it by dressing up as bison calves and wolves. You can see it worked cos Linda's searching for them with the bins with out any success. What we did find was all the bones after the H bashing In. We had a long chat with Edwin, one of the natives who works in the museum. He taught Paul the local dialect. You can test him when you see him next. It's great here at hotel Berridge, they really look after you great. They should open as a business. We did see some white tail deer and did manage to eat some super steak down the local restaurant. Linda looks happy. Next stop skiing, will Wally survive.

IT'S HELL

Paul in his lounger bed, will he ever be able to sleep tonight.