Castle & Not-Arthurs-Seat

Sarah's second day in Edinburgh dawned bright and sunny so we packed a picnic and headed out to Craigmillar Castle. 

Even the bus stop was lovely!

I've also realized that you can put posts under a cut link on blogger (lets pretend I have only just began blogging, instead of having this for absolutely ages without noticing). Since I tend to do photo heavy posts that make it very difficult to scroll back through my blog history, I will be implementing them starting immediately, either for the whole post, or only for a selection of bonus photos. In this case, for the whole post.

Hiking & Pseudo-Fathers Day

We decided to have our own Father's Day on the last weekend I was in Kimberley as Brad was down. Logan was at work during the day, but Brad and I went on a hike... 

We had a lovely father-daughter bonding moment at the beginning of the hike as we both took a couple of puffs off my nasty-tasting inhailer (next time I am so getting the brand name one). Asthma buddies!

It was a gorgeous day, and though there were some threatening clouds about, and the sound of thunder, it did not rain on us at all.

Due to a) Myrtle Mountain having a rather ridiculous trail system and b) someone being a very bad navigator, our trip to the top ending up being very long and winding (though still gorgeous).

We stopped at this log for quite a bit due to the fact that I largely couldn't breath anymore. At the point where dad was asking if I was okay and I couldn't get enough air to actually answer and was just waving at him was when he (smartly) decided to make me stop for a bit.

The view from the top was totally gorgeous! You can see all the threatening clouds mentioned earlier.

All in all we spent three hours on the mountain on what was a very nice hike - and only about five minutes from Logan's house to the trailhead!

There were loads of people out and about on the mountain, quite a few on bikes.

Once Logan got home from work, we picked up some pizza and slushies for dinner and then watched Terminator 2. I don't want to brag or anything, but I think it was a pretty awesome Father's Day.

Its not just a party, its a Kimberley Party

Logan has very interesting interests...

While the weather in Alberta had been quite nice, the weather in British Columbia was absolutely gorgeous. Connie and Brad came down on Friday (and I was banished from my comfortable bed to the couch) and we spent quite a bit of the weekend fixing Logan's lawn, which was beginning to resemble a jungle...

But I always find time to read. I read Sherman Alexie's young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in one day, and it was amazing. I cannot recommend it enough (you can see my full review of it over on my YouTube channel).

#aboutme

I made Team Jones margaritas in Logan's Magic Bullet one night (I love that thing) though I refused to use the tequila that had a worm on the bottom, and used the other stuff instead (ew, seriously, ew).

Yum!

On Connie and Brad's last full day in Kimberley we went on a fun time adventure, walking up to the Marysville falls and then up Sunflower Hill.

The spring melt had really swollen Mark Creek, resulting in a boil water notice that was active pretty much the whole time I was there (and also resulted in me learning a new word - turbidity!)

Good thing the creek was so loud - you can't hear Connie come up behind me and say "oh, are you making a video" (before clapping her hand over her mouth) - not so in a later video of the falls when Brad asked me the same question (I refilmed that one).

I believe that this is an abandoned fall out shelter or a forgotten secret lair and I refuse to accept any other explanation.

This guy was super cooperative for photos.

We then headed up one of the roads that Logan worked on with the forestry department last summer (though we didn't go as far into the mountains as he used to) and hiked up an old logging road.

The flowers after which the hill (presumably) gets its name.

The ground here was obviously very uneven - look at how tall Connie looks!

We concluded our day with a trip to the Pedal and Tap for dinner. It was delicious and adorable - I'm planning on doing an article on them for Hashtag, it was that good!