The Bailey Blog

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Lake Louise

This weekend, we got away for a short break into the Rockies, staying at the Chateau Lake Louise Hotel. The hotle is very opulent, and the view from our room was incredible (right).

Lake Louise as seen from the ski slopes.

On the way back, we we very lucky and saw a moose, standing in a stream 70-80m from the road. Sadly, a passing local informed us that it was stood in the water as it was trying to evade a wolf pack which was hunting it. A closer look at the photo shows a red wound on one of it's front legs where the wolves had already attacked it. Apparently they were waiting beyond the treeline, ready for the moment that the cold forced the moose from the river.

Sunday, 24 January 2010

Cypress Hills

Harrys had his Nana visit for a couple of weeks, so is getting plenty of cuddles & attention. Plus we're getting the help with the washing, hoovering, cleaning & cooking!!

So after a week confined to Ralston, we decided to venture to nearby Cypress Hills this weekend for a much needed change of scenery. We left Saturday morning with the snow starting to fall. By the time we got to our dest

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tion the snow was getting quite deep & driving conditions were quite interesting. We hoped the drive back wouldn't be so bad. However the snow continued throughout the night meaning we had to dig the car out before we could come home.

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Olympic flame comes to Ralston

Amid much hype, the Olympic flame came through Medicine Hat and Ralston village yesterday, en route to Vancouver. Not very exciting, really - just a bloke with a torch!

Saturday, 2 January 2010

photo updates (for now....)

we have at long last opened a 'Flickr' account in order to publish all of our photos online. See right for link. Blog willl continue, but Flickr page will have more photos on it. Enjoy!!

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Harry's big day out

Yesterday Harry had his first day out. We wrapped him up, and put him in his sling under Sam's coat, for a wander around snowy Banff. He was very well behaved, although didn't seem very interested in the magnificent mountain vistas.