Snow in June - I kid you not

June snowfall

Updated: Sat Jun. 06 2009 15:23:53
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It might have been hard to believe the calendar said June when you woke up Saturday morning.

Many Calgarians woke up to a light snow storm.

It stopped around 10 a.m.

We received between one and two centimetres, but by noon it was all melted.

However, in the afternoon there was another storm, this time rain mixed with snow.

Vipers Baseball

Today, we went to our first baseball game - home to the Calgary Vipers. They had a win against the Orange County Flyers in the first game (it was a double header due to poor conditions on Saturday night, led to the game being cancelled).

The game was great - but the weather was cooooold. And as much as we wanted to catch a ball (and keep it!) - it didn't go near us.

What was weird was that when there was a home run, there was a bucket where people threw their loonies or toonies ($1, or $2)... weird!

We didn't stick around for the second game due to the cooooold!

Paul's Pizza

It was as good as it looked. I didn't have tea that night after eating this for lunch, it was so HUGE!!

But we did also buy 40 timbits to eat. whoops

Calgary in Summer

Calgary Flames

Saturday morning we went to the Saddledome and Shannon met two NHL professional players from the Calgary Flames. And Sarich, asked Shannon whether he had played the game, because he had such a big and bulky frame. Shannon replied he can't skate but I AM HUGE!

Ok, so it didn't really go down like that in reality. But who are we, to distort Shannon's dreams.

Regina

So I went to Regina, Saskatchewan for overnight for work and these two buildings are how they advertise Regina.

That is because there are the only two buildings in Regina.

Lilac Festival

I had read about the lilac festival but had completely forgotten it was on last Sunday. But we managed to get there, after walking around downtown and realising that there was crowds on 4th street. 100,000 people were thought to attend the festival - and it was seriously nuts. Shannon hated it, because there was there was people everywhere and it was a struggle to get to any stalls due to the crowds. The temperature was less than 30 degrees, but there was so many guys with their shirts off thinking it was hot - ha!!

4th street was shut down and there was volleyball being played, with beer gardens overflowing. Awesome festival - voted best free festival in Calgary. busy, busy, busy! we didn't realise that many people lived in Calgary!

http://www.4streetcalgary.com/lilacfestival/

Singapore Sams

Last saturday night, we ventured off to singapore sams in the city. The place has a buffet - but we opted to buy off the menu, as we had our entertainment book. What was entertaining was watching a rather hungry fellow go up and back to the buffet numerous times!!

Food was tasty - but the chicken/beef was lacking! So we won't be back again!

Heritage Park

Last Saturday, we made our way to Heritage Park (which is the equivalent but on a much larger scale, of pioneer settlement at swan hill). That particular weekend, also happened to be the 'festival of quilts' weekend - so that mean a lot of the "older" crowd, was there proudly displaying quilts. The park was surprisingly busy - although I believe the park is only open during the summer months.

Heritage Park is coined as Canada's largest living museum, over 127 acres. The park is split into different areas, covering different eras. There is also an amusement park, (complete with ferris wheel), a steam train that goes around the park, a steam boat that docks at the park and goes along the lake, tipees, restaurants, horses and we even managed to see a live deer wandering around the park.

The weather was perfect for a day out. Icecream weather - finally!

http://www.heritagepark.ca/