Rain, rain and more rain

As you may have gathered from the blog title, we have had rain alot of rain here. In fact it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it has been on a Biblical scale! Apparently Alberta usually sees a couple of days rain a year, even less on the Prairie, so this amount of rain is very unusual. The Prairie has now turned green, instead of the usual scorched yellow and this part of Canada now resembles the English countryside. Lets hope summer does arrive before the Arctic winter sets in again!

Apart from that all is well. The children are busy and happy, Leigh is very busy and probably not quite so happy - he's been getting a bit wet out there! Despite the weather we did make it to a neighbours BBQ on Sat evening which was fun. The children have had their various 'Track and Field' days (Sports Day to the rest of us!), which they have enjoyed.

Hopefully attached to this blog is a recent episode of BFBS which amongst other things shows Ben & Olivia in their classrooms. BFBS have been out here filming the Med Man exercises and family life here in Ralston and it has been shown on TV here. There's some footage of Leigh briefing the Canadian Armed Forces minister too. But as they didn't do any filming in the gym or the Liquor store, I have managed to avoid the same fame!

Notes for the footage - Ben is stood at the front of the class (his 'show and tell' he claims!), Olivia is sat next to her teacher and is to the left of her shoulder when talking. The house shown (with the red car) is Marluth's house and I haven't been to the 'Prairie Rose' club since we moved in!