July 9

The weather was beautiful today so we decided to do one of the common events at Mom and Dad's mountain house... walking into town.
It's about a mile into town (down hill most of the way) going through woods, near houses and along the Bow river.
There is a big playground along the way so we stopped along the way and enjoyed the view of the mountains while the kids monkey barred and slid.
Once in town we met mom for a great lunch (Canmore has a great collection of restaurants!)
Mom bought them each a new Webkins at the dollar store (they weren't a dollar, just everything is rounded to a dollar). Joe got a blue whale, which I thought was really boring until he thought up the name... "Whalmer". Pete picked out a yellow canary which is he calling "Birdy".
We started back to the house and walked a different way which took us over an old trestle bridge. We took the opportunity to walk in some out-of-the-way paths.. got a little lost and then back on the right track. We stopped at the playground one more time and then trecked back up the hill to the house. We probably walked 3 miles!