Spring is in the air!

Another 10 days has just flown by! We are in the midst of organising our move back to the UK - for anyone that doesn't already know, we are London bound at the end of May, which scarily means that our belongings that we want shipped back to the UK are being collected on Monday! On top of that we are busy trying to sort out the new house, schools, flights, hotels, hire car, new car... the list goes on. It feels like we have only just unpacked!

On a more chirpy note, since my last blog we have managed to squeeze in another
lovely long weekend in the Rockies. When we arrived in Canmore last Thursday, the sun was shining and the temperature was well above freezing... a far cry from the lows of -32 that we had in Ralston earlier in the week. So the Rockies felt positively tropical and we all had that lovely 'holiday' feeling. Happy children + warm sunshine + cold beers & a hot tub = bliss!


Leigh & Ben skied again at Sunshine for a day and were doing Black Diamond runs together - impressive stuff! Olivia, Charlie & I pottered around Canmore taking the more life preserving option of walks by the now thawing river which they spent hours throwing stones into (whilst watching out for Grizzly bears!). We all went to Banff again for a day and it felt a little sad knowing we only have one more weekend planned there before we head back to the UK.


There is a big thaw happening here in Ralston at the moment. There is a buzz of spring in the air and we even have a large patch of grass, albeit dead grass, in the garden! Gophers are being spotted everywhere (a sure sign of spring) although I have only seen squashed ones on the Trans Canadian Highway!

So back to reality; we have a weekend of clearing out and packing planned - I'm not sure that the party we are going to tomorrow night (Friday) is going to assist with those plans! Oh well, there is always Sunday I guess!