okey dokey

another busy week for me. ray is quite the social director - friday night we went to the bow island roadhouse to watch a couple of bands - saturday was glow bowling at panorama lanes with friends. did you know there is a bowling alley radio station? complete with live dj, requests and birthday wishes for all across canada and the US - it was cool when they wished the girl in lane 13 in medicine hat a happy birthday!!! after us gals sandbagging the first game - the guys still beat us the second game and just as we were ready to go in for the kill, they forced us to bowl with our left hand for the final game - guess they were afraid we were going to kick their butts so better safe than sorry - i cannot bowl left handed what so ever and have never thrown so many gutter balls in my entire life - it was a blast.

sunday, friends came for dinner and few rousing games of crib (and then we golfed in bow island monday. after golf we drove straight to medicine hat to pick up my new engagement ring. ray had goldpro jewelers redesign mine to match the one i had designed for him so now we are perfectly matched peas in a pod - we celebrated with dinner at sari, a new restaurant downtown so i could check out their tempura fried veggies - yumm - and we toasted our anniversary with tropical drinks - i hung our rings on the straws to take a picture - and oops - they fell in the drinks - so much for our nice clean shiney rings - lol

it was back to work for me on tuesday night after spending the day in the yard - transplanting perennials and getting the decks ready for winter - the fun continuted right through until wednesday - after work we went to kareoke at ralph's. struggling through the bad singers was well worth the wait for the good singers because they were great. louis stappler had visiters from england who sang awesome tunes and i promised to (from left to right) jim, tom and arthur cowley and bill - to post their picture IF they called the station the next day - which they did and now have a souvenir on tape of their visit to medicine hat as well.

boy oh boy

what a busy week it's been. on wednesday, I had the honour of picking up the wilkinsons for their radio and tv interviews. steve is so congenial, tyler as quiet as a mouse and amanda so likeable.

it was able to catch the last half of their show at the esplanade on the 12th and i thought amanda would fly across the stage because she reminded me of peter pan, dancing around like a sprite.

friday night, ray and i attended the end of summer party at the elkwater lake lodge and had a blast with meagan and jared weaver of burdette and all their friends. the food and staff were superb, the games a blast and the company awesome. chat listeners are the best.

sunday we golfed with the station at ross creek where i golfed my best round ever (45) the meal was great - taber corn even better and we even won some cool prizes including a sleeve of golf balls, which i promptly lost the next day when we golfed at desert bloom -

we only golfed the back 9 and boy is that ever tough. but since it was cold and windy and the course wasn't busy, we stopped on the 11th water hole and found 15 balls!!! now i won't have to worry about losing good golf balls anymore!

fun in the forest

wow, i can't believe that summer is over but what a summer it has been. hope you had as great as one as i did. mine was filled with camping, camping and more camping, from 40 mile park (chevelles cabaret) to rattlesnake (troy's birthday party) writing on stone (k, not so fun when the truck breaks down and ray has to call his boss with the toyota to tow the ford) to our friends forest near cremona, (does a bear crap in the woods? no he parties with ray). THAT was the most fun of all, and it was like having your own park to yourself, with quad trails, a cookhouse and HUGE bonfires day and night (no fire ban on their side of the road) with that under our belt and out of our system, this week will be spent cleaning and winterizing the 5th wheel and getting the hockey equipment ready. the season is upon us and the next few, several - MANY months will be spent at the rink. but before that, thought i would post my latest pictures from the forest. hope you enjoy