We stayed home on the weekend of July 12 and 13. It was a very sunny and warm weekend, but the skies were very hazy with the smoke from several large forest fires that were burning over in the foothills, the Rocky Mountains, up in northeastern British Columbia, and in the Northwest Territories. The winds were mixing the smoke from these various fires together and diverting it into our area. Conditions had been this way for sevearl days and continued through the weekend.
The girls had tickets to go see the horse show, Odysseo by Cavaglia that had arrived in town and was showing in a large tent, set up in northeast Edmonton. The tickets were quite expensive and we bought them for the girls several months ago. Julia from Austria is still staying with us so she went to the show with Hailey, Annelise and Helena.
I tried to catch up on a few chores around the house but didn't really accomplish much. On Sunday, frustrated by being at home on such a nice weekend, I packed up and headed out for a day trip. I managed to talk Helena into coming along with me. We drove around for a couple of hours and didn't really accomplish anything. The light was harsh and the skies very hazy and the big camera never even made it out of the truck. Eventually we made our way over to Elk Island National Park. Helena wanted to walk one of our favorite trails through the woods and see if we could find any frogs. We had walked here in the spring a couple of years ago and there were little wood frogs all over the place. This time around there were no frogs to be found. But, there sure were a lot of dragonflies. Helena and I enjoyed the walk together and eventually packed up and made our way back to the city.
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