Hello Everyone :-) and Happy Belated Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends.  So I just got in from another wonderful Theatre Calgary play.  Skydive was amazing.  I would say it is the best play I have seen since last years The Wars.  It made me laugh and even made me cry.  It also made me want to go again, so I might just be spending a bit more money on theatre.  It was a play about two brothers and they did the whole thing suspended in the air.  It was brilliant.  It had tonnes of 80's references which was great and created tonnes of laughs.

 

Oh I will be putting up some new photos probably tomorrow.  For the long weekend I took a couple extra days off to relax and enjoy so I figured I would share.  On Thursday me and the cats played outside taking some pics of the backyard with the fall colours, and then in the evening I went and saw the movie Religulous, the new Bill Maher documentary movie.  It was actually really good.  Certainly not for anyone that really believes in religion but I enjoyed it and found it very thought provoking.  I like a movie that can make you laugh and think at the same time.  Friday I decided to get a little history studying in.  I figure if I'm going to write travel history there is no better place to start then with the history of my own province.  As with my usual taste in history (I like the death and destruction stuff) I headed to the Crowsnest Pass and the Frank Slide Interpretative Centre.  I haven't been there since I was a kid and even then I don't remember actually going and walking through the rocks.  So I spent a couple hours watching some videos and looking at the exhibits in this centre and learned all about the night when Turtle Mountain came down on the town of Frank.  I actually want to spend more time in that area, as there is a lot of neat history down there because of the mining that was done in the area.  It would also be a lot cheaper to visit there then to head to Europe.  The only downside to this visit is a couple of injuries...one to my poor Gnome Away From Home, Hank.  I was trying to take a picture of him with the slide behind him and the wind blew him over so he chipped his hat.  Of course that probably wasn't as bad as my badly bruised knee and arm.  Apparently me and my big feet weren't on the same page while I was doing the hike through the rocks and I tripped and took quite a nasty tumble.  As in the true nature of me I hurt myself but protected my camera (much like when I was younger when I would trip carrying a slurpee and never spill a drop ;-).  My camera did get a little scrap on the side but nothing damaging thank goodness.  As for me I just really badly bruised my knee as I said and my arm.  The arm is still a bit tender but my knee only hurts now when I take the stairs, but even that is better.  It sure beats Saturday where it hurt to walk.  So I took it pretty easy on Saturday and Sunday.  Then Monday my last of my days off I went and hung out at the zoo where I saw lots of sleeping animals, two very cute babies (the baby elephant and the baby giraffe) and even a little elephant fun...LOL What is really fun is watching the younger kids trying to figure out just what is going on and thinking what their poor parents now have to explain.  hehe

 

Well anyway I should probably sign off and head to bed.  It's late and it was a very busy day at work today and it looks like the next few will be just as bad so I need my sleep.  I will write at you all again soon.  Hopefully sometime before my next play...I need to get back in the habit of boring you all with my random thoughts because I know you all miss it ;-)