Lots of halloween and hockey this week. As you know, halloween is such a huge thing out here (completely OTT & very funny!)- alot of people made a huge effort decorating their houses and gardens...someone here turned thier garden into a graveyard complete with grave stones...very spooky...another house led trick or treaters through a maze of cobwebs and skeletons in order to get to the goodies...I went completely out of my way and carved 3 pumpkins....and lit them...! It was good fun and the kids came home with bags so full they were dragging on the ground! The rest of the week it feels has been spent mostly at the ice-rink. Leigh and Ben have been training and I had a match against the Orange Oilers (an all male team!) They were very kind to us and didn't play hard at all...so we only lost 6-3...it could have been alot worse! Last night we went to the firework display here at Fort Whoop Up (!) which was very cold! Today we woke up to SNOW! So the kids were out first thing (apparently the novelty wears off, so all the boring ones keep telling us!). Twas only a smattering and its all gone now. A taste of things to come though. The other morning it was -10. So lots more hockey this week. Leigh is playing tomorrow, Ben on Tues, me on Weds, Leigh again on Thurs...it's starting to take over! Olivia was skating yesterday, she's really enjoying it now and today I got Charlie some 'Bob Skates'! Basically they are like the really old roller skates we used to have that buckle over the shoe, only these have two blades on the bottom so he will be bombing around the arena with the rest of them. No doubt he will have some top tips for Leigh and I aswell!