Week ending May 5, 2016 Edmonton to Rocky Mountain House

On Friday, while John went golfing with Buncha and Kit at JR Golf, Joan went shopping for a few things.   We all met back at Buncha and Annie's house, then headed to Good Buddy Restaurant in south Edmonton where Buncha and Annie treated us to a very good Chinese meal.   We returned to their place to chat over coffee.

Saturday morning, we got up later than usual.   We sanded and painted stabilizers before watching the Players Championship Curling.  We talked to Karen about her holiday plans and Dominique's preparation for her trip to Italy.

On Sunday morning, we stopped in at Buncha's to pick up John's Redwoods hoody.  Then we joined Ann, Daniel and George at Snow Valley Ski Hill parking lot.  We walked downstream on Whitemud Creek for while, then returned to the parking lot where we had a picnic lunch on the benches at the bottom of the ski hill.   After lunch, we walked upstream on Whitemud creek.  It was quite enjoyable walking through the trees with views of the mallards and teals on the creek from time to time.   We also saw some squirrels and hawks.   On the way back to the trailer, we detoured to Spruce Grove to pick up paint to finish the stabilizers, and some wood filler for some screw holes in the trailer, and a few groceries.

Monday was spent making a couple of supports for the sewer line, and finishing painting the stabilizers.

Tuesday morning, we went for a walk along the Heritage Grove Trail system in Spruce Grove.  It is quite an extensive system of trails throughout the town.   On the way back to the truck we picked up some lottery tickets at a Reddi-Mart.   Then we headed to Jack's Drive In for peanut butter and chocolate milkshakes Joan had seen advertised.  Jack's has been in business since 1961, and has a very eclectic menu.    

Late afternoon, we went to visit with Joan's cousin Dave until his wife Joan came home from work.   Then we all went out for supper.   We returned to their place and had a nice chat before leaving for the trailer around 9:30.   We don't often drive home in the dark.

Wednesday was the end of our stay in Edmonton.  We headed for the Riverview Campground, just across the North Saskatchewan west of Rocky Mountain House.   On the way, we stopped at Calmar Bakery, for a couple of treats, a took a picture of the mural done for the Zirka Ukrainian Performers.

Once we got onto highway 22 near Buck Creek, we stopped at OXXO gas to change drivers, and get cold drinks.  When we arrived at Riverview, the owner led us to a site from which we could get satellite, and he showed us where to point it.  It worked very well.   Once we were set up, we headed into Rocky to find some International Delight cold coffee drinks, but we didn't have any luck checking a couple of grocery stores and a drug store.

Thursday was an overcast drizzly day, so John cleaned the bugs off the front of the trailer while Joan did laundry.   We haven't seen the bear that was in the area.