Wipeout!

Probably the funniest show on TV this summer.

A new summer series premiered this week on ABC (airing on Global in Canada) called Wipeout. It's part American Gladiators, part Japanese game show. It's basically a bunch of over enthusiastic people running through silly obstacle courses. They look ridiculous and hurt themselves all for your entertainment and $50,000.



Some of you might recognize it as a blatant rip-off of this show, called MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) that airs on Spike TV.

Trip to Alberta

A few weeks ago, on the memorial weekend, we decided to go up to Alberta to visit Ashley and Gerald. It took a bit longer to get there than we thought it would, but it was a beautiful drive through Banff and we did eventually arrive safely. Ashley prepared a delicious meal of haystacks for dinner.

On Sabbath we went to church in the morning and hiking at a nearby park in the afternoon. We brought the dogs and they had a great time running through the fields and wading in streams. Olive decided to get a drink from one of the streams we came across, but the bank was steeper than she thought and she fell in and Lindsay had to pull her out. Then she ran to another part of the stream and dropped her front end in, leaving her back end on the bank. Needless to say, it didn't work well and she couldn't get her head out of the water for more than a few seconds at a time. Lindsay ran over and pulled her out, getting soaked in the process. In the evening we went to a Greek restaurant for supper (it was great) and afterwards we went to see Indiana Jones.














On Sunday we drove to the West Edmonton Mall. We shopped for a couple hours and then spent the rest of the afternoon at the water park swimming in the wave pool and going down water slides. For supper we went to the spaghetti factory. When we got home in the evening we had a camp fire. The dogs were kinda hyper from their afternoon in crates and spent most of the evening chasing each other around the yard and wrestling.

Monday we hung out around the house most of the day, went on a walk with the dogs and got a quick tour of CUC's campus. Ashley made another delicious meal (mmmm, Special K Roast) and surprised Lindsay with a birthday Ice Cream cake!
















Tuesday we drove back to Washington. We took a different route back and it took a lot less time. Olive seemed really sad in the car ride back to be leaving Zoey behind. She had so much fun playing with her.

More pictures of the trip.

Live Lion Feed

Follow the link bellow to watch live video of a mother lion and her cubs. (I think it's cool.)

Se Norges første løveunger LIVE!

Finding her Zen

Here's a picture of Olive participating in one of her favourite activities. She sits on the balcony, listening to the world below her and watching for squirrels or birds in the trees. Sometimes a fly will distract her or she'll feel it's time to get plant material off the balcony with her tongue, but usually she just sits there.

Update

Hi, sorry for the long absence. Just a quick update: I've added a few photo's to Olive's 6 month album. In the next few days I hope to add some photo's to Olive's 7 month album, some pictures and a post from our trip to Alberta and some pictures from our hike two weekends ago at Mount Si with Justin and Melissa.

From Olive, 6 months