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PSA: I loooove dinosaur jokes and puns so this is just fair warning for everyone to either crack up with me, brace yourselves or maybe just skip this post! 😉 Jurassic Forest made for a dino-mite summer day out! Having a 4 year old in the house means that dinosaurs are one of the coolest animals to have ever existed! Our year in Alberta has been filled with learning about dinosaurs so… Read More
Easter landed on a beautiful spring weekend which reached a high of 21 degrees! Knowing the temps were likely to dip into the single digits again the following week, we packed a picnic lunch and headed outside to the Edmonton Valley Zoo to make the most of the sunshine. There were plenty of opportunities to learn about animals from interactive displays to live talks by zoo keepers. The kids loved exploring the… Read More
Edmonton, along with a lot of Alberta, has had a cold snap! After enduring a week-long deep freeze (the longest since the 90’s!) which looks to go for 12 days we were craving some outdoor time! The Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton made for the perfect place! This botanical garden consists of four glass pyramids, each with a different biome. Tropical, Arid, Temperate and a feature pyramid which changes to a new themed… Read More
All five of us had never seen snow before! We arrived at night and it was snowing! The ground was covered in snow and it glitters! I never realised that snow would glitter! It has been pretty much snowing every couple of days since we have been here so there has been no shortage of snow play for us to have! We have made a snowman, snow balls, an igloo and snow… Read More
Edmonton is a city that embraces the cold weather! Nearly every weekend since we have been here there has been an outdoor winter festival to check out. And these festivals have been magical! Filled with fairy lights, ice sculptures, snow sculptures, ice slides and maple syrup taffy. The Deep Freeze festival was a lively festival that celebrated Ukrainian, Francophone and Indigenous cultures. Highlights of this festival that we stumbled across were two… Read More
After we found out we would be exchanging to Edmonton I hopped on google and the Edmonton Ice Castles were the first thing that came up! They looked amazing (especially to someone who had never seen snow) so of course they were the first thing added to our Edmonton bucket list! Imogen dressed herself from head to toe in her ‘Frozen’ clothes for the visit, although you couldn’t tell once she was… Read More
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