I LIKED IT, I LOVED IT....I WANT SOME MORE OF IT

Yes I told you there would be a part two

so you know what your are in for if you stay here

More fun

Cause ME and my Peeps

of the family kind

are nothing but FUN

come visit me.........Find out for Yourself !!

Let's see

where to start

Ok...so after we stayed at My place for 6 days

we headed south

to Southern Alberta

so we could see my folks and sister

(we stayed at my sisters house)

also there was the Yearly Family Reunion to attend

(gotta love a family reunion to re-affirm the nut tree you come from)

It was POURING when we got to Beazer

(that's about 20 miles from Waterton National Park)

But no sireeee...no rain will spoil Our Fun

My sister had these funny umbrella hats on hand

My parents (great grandma and grandpa) had a freezer full

of Rolo Ice cream

You Yankees can't get that down there (so I've heard)
and it is a favorite of my DIL'S

so when my kids come up we buy a HUGE BARREL of it

Yup.....I said Barrel

and every evening after supper

(we say supper up here in Canada...there is breakky, dinner and supper)

We'd head over to my parents house
Line up....and fill up ice cream cones

(yeah, it was not healthy for my hips eating this, they are in jeopardy of becoming a little Rolo)

The Reunion was fun as always
you know, the usual
wiener and marshmallow roasts
jokes and teasing
a few insults for good measure to keep us honest
games
sometimes the games did not go well for a few

The kids had fun running around in the fields
and playing on the hay stacks

(I guess Gracey is still a little miffed from the game)

One of the Favorite things for the kids to do when they visit
is go to the BARN DANCE
Officially....THE GREAT CANADIAN BARN DANCE
It really is a lot of fun
some real good two steppin' and line dancin'

(me and Gracey boot skoot boogin)

a little line dancing with my cousin

seriously ---so stinking much fun

The Creek is always a fun place to hang out at
(I have been swimming this creek since I could walk)
and have been known to do a little skinny dipping as well

a favorite is to use the rope and jump off the rocks



Miss Olivia says you have to be BRAVE to do it

Or perhaps you just want to do some floating



(K-doll......aka Sue Ellen Ewing (if your read my last post)

Hiking......lots of that

you don't come to the country and mountains

and not hike

(so pretty.........the Scenery Too)

We always go to Waterton Falls

(DIL and her kiddies)

(My daughter and her gals)

(looks like a little too much Rolo around the waist)

RED ROCK CANYON

This is a fun place to go

as you can go for quite a long ways following this creek

through the Canyon

There are some Deep parts as well as the shallow parts

Miss Olivia always ready to try the more daring places

there were some really slippery places

DANG....it is pretty up there

Lastly....we had our Ceremonial Indian Night
(or to be politically correct, the American Native night..or in Canada, First Nations)

We all gather around the bonfire
I smoke a little drift wood ...my version of the peace pipe

(visual proof...me and a niece from a few years ago)

ANYWHOOO

as I direct the smoke towards their head

each person is given their new Indian Name for the Year

and their Animal Names

Example: (for the benefit of my family members reading this)

Olivia was...FAWN and Rainbow Fish

Grace was....Thunder Cloud and Wild Stallion

Kendra was...Morning Glory and Blue Bird

Tristan....was Lightening Warrior and Happy Wolf

NOW EACH ONE IS NAMED THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR PERSONALITY TRAITS

(as a side note...SOME of you have heard this before

but since I am on my Third Marriage ....don't judge LONG STORY

my DIL once dubbed me SHE WHO WARMS MANY BUFFALO ROBES)

After the Ceremony which also consisted of some Indian Chants

and Dances (oh yeah, I know how to do THAT)

the kids have to run around the Barn, scantily clothed

we made a little loin cloth for Tristan

We even attended a REAL POW WOW

There was a part where they invited all spectators to join them

on the grounds and dance around with them

Of course we had to join them

(even though we'd already been there done that)

(my daughter, grand daughter and sister)

It was All Pretty Amazing actually

So...there  you have it

A vacation wrapped up

Everyone gone back home

and me.....

I'll be sitting in my own teepee through a cold winter

Perhaps "warming some buffalo robes"