Thursday, October 11, 2012

Rutherford House walk...

One of my favourite places to visit and eat is the Rutherford House.
 It was the home of the first Premier of Alberta and is on the property of the University of Alberta. 
At one time they were going to tear it down, but fortunately it was preserved!
 There is a tea house, gift shop, museum in the house. 
It also is rented out to the public for different events.
Inside the rooms are as beautiful as the outside!1
The one tea house room is all windows!  I love it!!
This day brunch was served. The meals always look elegant!
Today we walked to the tea house across the Highlevel Bridge 
On the way home we will go across the LRT bridge and climb those stairs.
 (if you haven't read the Highlevel Bridge walk..click above on Highlevel Bridge)
The walk is down the valley thru trees!
A bottom view of the Highlevel Bridge.
And here we are at the LRT Bridge.
View of both bridges.

We were able to see the train crossing on top of the High Level Bridge that day!
Now we get to climb the stairs....
At the top...only 2 of you guessed the number of stairs in my High Level Bridge post...
Nancy was the closest...
There are 202 stairs!!
Hope you enjoyed the walk...





Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Long Weekend wrap up...

 Anniversary -Thanksgiving weekend!
On Sunday hubby gave me this anniversary present...

My dad was a collector...he never threw anything away. Hubby had a jar of old keys of my dads. Awhile back  I said I would like one of dad's keys for a necklace...
and here is what hubby did!

The chain is beautiful...it matches the keys perfectly. 
He had both keys engraved...one says 40 years...the other has our initials on it...
the same as he engraved on a tree where we were engaged at a lake by Banff!! 
We celebrated our anniversary supper alone.
 (next weekend we will have a celebration with our children!)
We had supper in a revolving restaurant in Downtown Edmonton...
The building revolves  once every hour and is on the 24th floor...

The building hubby spends his days working in...
Down below...

The river valley...
Our meal was delicious and we revolved around....3 times!!
(Earlier in the day we walked to the Rutherford House...and climbed those stairs..
will post on that later this week and let you know how many stairs there are!)

Thanksgiving Monday we spent with our children and grandchildren!
It was a wonderful long weekend!



Sunday, October 7, 2012

A Happy Thanksgiving...

 Weekend...
And...
years of memories 
married to my best friend!
October 7, 1972 - October 7, 2012

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

High Level Bridge Walk

If you like, come with me on a walk across the High Level Bridge. 
The day is warm...we still have the beauty of the fall...and if we wait we don't know how the weather can change.  
On our way we'll take a detour to the Legislature Buildings. 
Here there are a number of pools that children can wade in on a warm day. 
I'm thinking in the next week, they will drain some of them.
We get to the High Level Bridge..If you look on top of the bridge..
On the south side of the river is the University of Alberta and the University Hospital.
In among the University is the Rutherford House. Home of the first Premier of Alberta.
It is now a museum and has a wonderful Tea House, I love to visit....



Oh yes...the stairs...
We can cross the river another way......
If we walk down these stairs we can cross below the LRT tracks to get to the Tea House...
(can you guess how many steps there are?)
We'll go that route to the Tea House...and see the quaint place...
The weather is getting cool....
it may snow...so we'll see maybe next week we'll go
Hope you'll come along!!
And we'll count the steps... to see who got the right amount!

Monday, October 1, 2012

Weekend wrap up...

Friday the moon was bright...
Firstborn was in a 24 hour run.... 
It started at 7:00 pm Friday...
And it ended at 7:00 pm Saturday...
 I love firstborn dearly...
but I don't get it....
 why...
when your looking forward to this???
 Saturday we watched a grandson play football..

Did some city shopping at Costco...
sigh.... this is one aspect of the city I can live without...
shopping in those crowds...
Well that was our weekend in a nutshell...
and I'm on to another week!

National Puppy Day

Miss Pepper…..she changed our life… But life wouldn’t be as full without her! She is a kind sweet puppy that always ‘try’s😳’ to please.