We went skating today at Bowness, which is just down by the river. This is a lagoon that you can boat on in the summer and freezes over in the winter. It was just lovely to be able to skate outside on a frozen pond on Christmas Eve with Christmas music playing in the background. They even had fires, in concrete drums, on the ice for you to warm your hands (and bum). Just perfect! View some more photos - click here
Every year leading up to Christmas The Calgary Zoo create Zoo Lights, where they employ Clark Griswold to blitz the whole Zoo in lights. They have lots of fires going around the park and activities for the kids. For more pictures click here
Yesterday we went to the Hitmen game at the Saddledome because it was their annual charity event, the Teddy Bear Toss. The Calgary Hitmen are our local ice hockey team playing in the Western Hockey League (WHL). They are lucky because they get to play in the same stadium as our NHL team, The Calgary Flames. At this event you take a teddy bear to throw on to the ice when the Hitmen score. When you consider there were some 16,000 people in attendance for the event and when the Hitmen finally scored in the 2nd period, it was incredible to see all the bears being thrown from everywhere in the stadium to eventually find the ice. It took about half an hour for them to clear the ice of bears so the game could continue. Click here for some more pictures.
The snow is finally back and thankfully I managed to get the lights on the house before it arrived. Didn't fancy getting up on the roof with snow on it!!
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