Moose Jaw, SK

I have to admit that I did a bit of googling before we left for Canada. With the boys at a conference all day, for several days, us girls were going to "have" to shop and tour. One of the closer towns to Regina is called Moose Jaw so I looked it up online and found out that it was going to be my kind of town! Just a quaint, cute place.....with quilt shops included! They were even having a quilt show on the day we were there but I knew no one except me would be interested so we took a tour of some underground tunnels they have in the downtown area. The story is that Al Capone, the famous gangster, may have hidden out there at times.

This stands in front of the visitor center of Moose Jaw.

 

Darling daughter took this pic....I wanted one to show the whole board----it is all the flavors this resaurant had of wings or chicken strips. Plenty to choose from! Their shake board was filled with just as many flavors! Have you ever tried a lime shake? Me neither. I stuck with good ol' chocolate.

 

Loved their downtown area! I should have taken more pics of all the murals that were downtown. Here are just a couple:

 

 

Next....what I found at the quilt shops........you knew I had to have bought something, whether I needed it or not.

Away on Business....

Have had a couple of busy weeks traveling with the Honey on his business trips. Our first trip just happened to coincide with the big Spring Snow Storm in Denver. Where I live, the snow falls horizontally. It was pretty seeing it come down in a straight fall. And fall it did....for 4 days! By the time it was done snowing, we had about a foot of snow around us! The most interesting thing about the storm was that when we left to drive home, we had alot of snow. When we got to downtown Denver, there was nothing. The drive between the two places was about 15 minutes. Such an odd storm. Here's some pics while we were with our kids:

 

 

This past week was spent in Canada. I finally have a passport so I hope to be able to use it more than just this trip!

 

Not all grocery stores were like this one where you had to pay to get a shopping cart but I had to take a picture. I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to shop there much since I never have money in my purse. I wouldn't ever be able to get a cart!

 

Been awhile since I have seen a new car so I was intrigued with the gear shift being on the dash and the keyless key to start your car with!

 

My daughter recently found out she is allergic to soy so she was VERY happy to find this ice cream shop with all natural products. We had to go there more than once since she finds it hard to eat out in restaurants since soy is in almost all packaged foods.

 

All I can say is that I was happy no one was around......

 

Regina is the home to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy. It was interesting to visit the museum but I'm still not sure if they are like our highway patrol, regular policemen or if they are deputies/sheriffs. Of course I didn't think to ask until we left the museum.

 

While waiting for a movie one night, we decided to go bowling. My goodness! The game has really changed or this is a new Canadian version! You only bowl 5 pins. It is not as easy as you might think! Very hard to hold a small ball and let it go at just the right time.

 

Customs. This was to get into the country. Getting out was a different story. I didn't know that one child had put his trinkets in my carryon. Of course I got searched. Heaven forbid you try to help the baggage security guy. If I had known what he was looking for, I might have been able to point him in the right direction in my suitcase without him taking everything out. I was so afraid he was going to have to go through my dirty laundry. Finally he found the culprit. What he thought was scissors, turned out to be a key ring. Of course my daughter was behind me having her own bag searched---they finally decided it was her makeup letting off the wrong signal. My son's bag was also searched. Dear Honey was patted down. The only one that got away was sil who checked his bag. When we entered Minneapolis, we all breezed through security.......no commment.

 

Next post I will show Moose Jaw....isn't that the best name ever for a town?!

Gramma's lil' guy!

Is this not the cutest thing ever? Lil' guy came to play at grammie's today and got all tuckered out. Love that little one!

 

Snow in April!

Here's the We Be Jammin' quilt (a Quilt Soup pattern) all done and quilted.

 

And here is our snow from our last snow storm on Friday. It's a beautiful wonderland outside. So bright and sunny and white! I love it! I also love that I didn't see any deer tracks....they have found our home and like to come have dinner at our place. Grrrrrr. I wouldn't mind if we hadn't paid someone to design our yards.

 

 

Did I tell you who I met?

Barbara Jones of Quilt Soup! Oh Yes! I was excited! Barbara came to our LQS to do a class and trunk show. I was able to make it to the trunk show and was so glad I did! Aren't these quilts fabulous?! Barbara makes quilts with big applique blocks so they are quick and easy. My quilt, "We Be Jammin" is a Quilt Soup pattern. It's hard to tell from a pattern picture how beautiful or cute a quilt can be so I loved seeing the trunk show. Sad to say that Barbara's newer quilts were traveling without her to other shops but what we saw were "WOW!". I enjoyed hearing the stories behind each quilt she held up. It really made the quilt come alive when you heard her talk about how each quilt came to be. She also has a blog, you may enjoy reading. You can find it here. Enjoy! (I just wished I hadn't been sitting on the 3rd row with heads in the way!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing to do with quilting......

......but I have to share. Lots of us are either grammas or know someone who has a baby in diapers (maybe even you!). Here is a good deal if you need diapers. Go to this diaper site and look around. My dil usually gets her diapers at Costco but found these online prices to be very good. There is even FREE shipping if you order over a certain amount! When you are ready to checkout type TYSONSMOM in the promo code box and you will get ANOTHER $10 off your order!!! How great of a deal is that?! Pass it along to your friends who have babies!

Gobble time!

With all that gobbling going on outside the cabin Saturday morning, you would have thought we were at a turkey farm! Talk about being surprised when we saw these 3 outside walking around talking up a storm at the cabin! I was hoping we would see them again this morning but no such luck. It probably didn't help that we were in the middle of a blizzard...