Just a quick note to all our friends in the UK - especially London - HOPE YOUR"E ENJOYING THE SNOW!!!! Heeheehee - PS we have bright sun & warm weather right now here in Calgary!!

We've bought a house!

We made an offer today on the above house and it was accepted :-) We take possession on March 2nd. If anyone would like to pop over to help us move that would be great!! Here are some more pictures of our new house here

First Ski/Snowboard of the year

Yesterday we made it to Canada Olympic Park, which is only 15 minutes from home, for our first ski/snowboard lessons since arriving in Calgary. Sophie decided to do skiing and the boys and I did snowboarding. Becky decided not to ski because of her dodgy knee, so she took loads of pictures instead. After our one and a half hour lesson we decided to continue and did another 3 or 4 runs from the top of the slop. We all had a blast! Everything was going really well until the final run when a skier decided to use me to stop. I felt like I had been hit by a train, but after the medics had checked me out I continued to the bottom of the slop. I now have some nice bruises and a rather painful back!! But we all can't wait to go again. Have a look at the pictures from the day, click here

Happy New Year!

Well, we started the year in the UK and ended it in Canada. What a year!
We enjoyed our first Christmas in Calgary especially as it was a white one. The only thing that spoilt it was that Becky had to work. Although she has 5 days off over New Year. We saw 2009 in at our house with a Turkey Christmas dinner (cos Becky missed it) and our friends Nick, Ali, Erin, Jacob and Nick's parents Judy and Chris. Needless to say it was a fairly boozy affair with the sing along version of Mamma Mia, silly games and sparklers! Here are the pictures from Christmas and New Year.

Heritage Park in -39 degrees!

Yesterday we had tickets booked through Becky's work for breakfast at Heritage Park. The weather has taken a little turn for the worst as it was -39 with the wind chill. We decided to wrap up in very warm clothes and go anyway. We all enjoyed the breakfast and then had a quick look round the park and tried very hard not to loose any appendages through frost bite - we survived!! Here are some pictures.

Karate Christmas Party

Saturday we went to the Karate Christmas party. Becky and I had a great time with our new friends and we even got to sit on Santa's knee (well kind of!) to receive our Christmas present in the gift exchange. Becky got a T-Shirt which was from the 40th Anniversary of the Shotokan Karate Master Camp (Shame it was XL - :-)) and I got a magnetic poetry kit for the fridge. Our fridge is now plastered with some very interesting cliche's indeed. Speaking of plastered, click here for the picture evidence!

Wow! More snow

Yesterday it snowed all day. By the end of the day we had settled snow of around 7 inches. Sophie and I went tobogganing! Click here for a short video of Sophie.