Grace and her parents and my Mom came to join us for the Cochrane Labour Day Rodeo Weekend.
First the solar eclipse
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Southern Alberta wound up being ~90% for the viewing of the solar eclipse in Aug 2017. It
happened to be a day that I was taking a long weekend so Henry and I decided to go to the
Science Centre in Calgary to see the eclipse through a telescope. Well, we would been better
served by going to the Mitford Park event instead as it was a clown show at the Telus centre.
Here's a view of the line-up to see the telescope. Craziness.
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After the moon had passed out of the sun's path, the line-up came down a lot and Henry and I lined
up to look at the sun anyway.
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"Daddy, I got to see spots on the sun." Pretty cool for a three-year-old.
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And then afterwards we got to hit up Peter's Drive-in. Yummy! And Henry ate like a real human
instead of having his bites cut up first.
Some Henry and Walter photos
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Walter hanging out at our house. Check out the smiles!
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Susi came down for a visit from Edmonton to meet Walter.
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Susi brought Henry an abacus and he was pretty excited about it.
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What a funny little guy! Thanks to Sus for this photo.
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Henry likes to explore our rec centre. When he saw older kids playing ping pong, he decided that
he wanted to try this out.
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Henry on the planes at Calaway Park on a nice day in August.
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Of all the times we've been to Calaway, this was Henry's first time that he got to sit in the front
of the mini roller coaster.
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Check out this very happy little boy. This is at the 'dump truck' park up in Sunrise.
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It turns out that going for a bike ride like this is 'detraining' according to my Fenix. Pretty low
intensity coupled with a lot of breaks to check out parks in the area.
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Henry and I playing 'Sequence' at the Hub coffee shop.
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We tried out Walter in the bouncy chair this week. He's pretty close to being able to jump on his own.
