Drumheller, Fish hatchery, and Edmonton trip

A bunch of photos from various trips in April, including a visit to Drumheller,
going to the fish hatchery in Calgary, along with a trip to West Edmonton Mall for the boys'
spring break.

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Walter making Ukrainian Easter eggs with Mom.

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Henry working on his egg designs as well.

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All of our eggs.

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Walter trying out Breathe Parkour in Calgary with his friend Niko.

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These run up walls are pretty cool.

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And jumping off surfaces too.

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More of the inside of this place.

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Walter and Niko, sweaty from jumping around.

Walter running up a wall at parkour

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Henry and his friend Calem from Saskatoon hanging out on the back of my F250 Camry.

One of Fitzy's boys doing the floss on my car

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Ana and Emily in the hot tub.

Riding bikes at our house

Hitting jumps

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Kurt and George working on trains, and George telling Kurt he put the train in the wrong bin.

Henry's school have a theatre group visit

Full production here

Fish Hatchery in Calgary

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I took the boys and Henry's friend Gracie to go check out the fish hatchery in Calgary.

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Gracie and a LOT of rainbow trout.

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Walter and a big trout head.

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A neat water exhibit.

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Henry caught a whopper!

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Looking at the inside of a trout.

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Walter inside a pretend beaver dam.

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And the beaver inside.

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A whole lot of baby trout, called alevins in this stage. We got a private tour of the hatchery,
which the kids loved.

Feeding trout

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Feeding trout at the hatchery - they were amazed how fast the trout would zip around and grab the pellets.

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Walter looking at a tank of trout.

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We also went to the Flying Squirrel, which the boys love. Here's Walter with their mascot.

Gracie doing a standing flip

And then a flip into the foam pit

Henry doing a flip

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Nice photo of the kids on the rope net swing.

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And knocking each other off the balance beam.

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Gracie getting a hand up.

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Walter and Henry having a battle royale.

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Walter on the rope ladder.

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And taking a break on the king's chair.

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Gracie being regal as well.

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Boogie's Burgers is a big hit with our boys and they got to show Gracie. Here's Walter crushing
it on Donkey Kong. For the record, I actually set new records for both Donkey Kong and Ms Pacman
so I'm still very much a degenerate.

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Walter and Gracie having milkshakes.

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And Gracie loves her poutine!

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And she got to play Ms Pacman too!

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How great is this? Pickled eggs with balsamic vinegar so the egg is black!

Walter's butter experiment

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My sister D and her kids came for Easter dinner and here they are having a bite.

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A delicious dinner for Easter.

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Hanging in our hot tub.

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The boys in the hot tub.

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The boys having a sleepover in our living room since it was their spring break.

To West Ed

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The boys LOVE playing at the World Waterpark at WEM. We managed to finally get some tubes and they
immediately threw them in the wave pool and had a party. Side note - even though the line-up was long
I clearly should have gotten tubes when we rolled in as they totally sold out.

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Having fun on the waves.

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The Lego hand is always a hit, even though the characters it produces are always their most recent
marketing push - in this case F1 drivers.

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A huge 8 foot Lego wall of flowers. I should have put a kid in here for perspective.

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Riding the Cootie Coaster.

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Fun photos on the roller coaster.

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Walter loving his time on the roller coaster - I think they went on this one like 10 times.

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D and her boys met us at the mall for another party.

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Landon wasn't a big fan of the roller coaster.

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Walter kept crushing it.

Playing Simon Says

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Final score with Walter and Kale beating Henry and Landon.

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On the Monopoly Railroad.

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Having a snack before riding on the stuffed animals.

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Riding the stuffed animal racers.

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This was just before Jack drove into a column. Really.

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Walter crushing the stuffed animals.

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Henry and Kale doing laps.

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Me making rude gestures on the roller coaster.

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Going on the ropes with the boys.

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I told them to pretend the clamp was their wiener.

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The boys all went on the Cootie roller coaster by far the most. The other roller coaster had a ~20
minute line up and this one had a zero minute wait. Way better!

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Henry and Kale riding the cootie coaster.

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Natalia and Walter in a bumper car.

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And me too.

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Henry and Landon.

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Some 'derby' faces.

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Our last ride of the trip was the big swings.

The land

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My sister bought some land out by Gull Lake and we stopped in on the way home from Edmonton.
This is walking towards the lake, which was still frozen.

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Kale found a frog.

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Boys just love running around in mud, until they lose their shoes.

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Like Jack, shown here with no socks.

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Of course if there's a big floating snow pile, the boys have to go investigate and check it out.

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What's a place at the lake without throwing axes and knives?

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And guns, of course. You need more guns. These are orbie guns.

Tyrrell Museum

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The weather was terrible on this day, so we took a drive to Drumheller to go to the Tyrrell museum.

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Playing with the layer game to build up the soil and fossil records.

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Walter and Black Beauty.

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Henry thought this little carnivore was 'cute'. I told him it would eat his face.

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Both boys really liked the nautiloids.

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The racing game was a hit for the boys.

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The fossil puzzle captured Henry's attention

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Until he figured it out.

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Every year we go to Tyrrell we take this photo. It'll make a fun year-over-year collage at some point.

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Walter and a T-rex. His face here is funny - he was kind of done taking photos.

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But he DID like taking this photo with the wooly mammoth.

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We went for a short hike at the Horsethief Canyon where Henry was happy to find crocuses.

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Walter on the top of a hill. He's not happy since I made him take his sandwich for our walk
since he didn't finish it at lunch.

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Henry found cactus and crocus on the same hike. Fun!

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Walter's class photo this year. His face here is stellar.

Paul goes to Boston

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I popped into Boston for a company conference. Here's the first office I worked out of in Wilmington. It
turns out no one walks anywhere in the US, so I was the weirdo on the side of the road walking since I didn't want to
rent a car.

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Our new office.

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A funny Mexican restaurant sign in Boston.

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This Bobby Orr character before a Bruins game. Side note - don't rent a bike and ride to the hockey
game if it's dumping rain. It was 'challenging' to say the least especially since I couldn't find
a parking spot.

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Apparently TD Garden in Boston when said quickly sounds like something else.

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Some delicious deviled eggs at a bar in Boston.

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A creepy photo of my buddy Rene and David Bowie.

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My friend Lia in Boston having a cocktail.

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Delicious cookies and dainties at a bakery in Boston's North End called Bova's.

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And more! The answer is that I should have gotten the jam cookies for Natalia called linzer cookies.

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I went for a yog out to Pleasure Bay to avoid getting too fat.

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I thought my buddy Crazy Carl would like the 'Free Smells' sign at Jimmy John's.

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Why do women need bath houses? 'Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace' - James Thomson apparently.

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I had been meaning to check out the JFK Library for years and finally got here, courtesy of a Blue Bike.

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This is back when the president's office still had respect.