"I want to ride my bicycle"

Supermodel D getting ready for the hour-long bike to the zoo.
SDJ & Buck take time to hug by the Lions.
100's of animals and Buck and cousin A-man only cared about the walking train. They cried about it most of the day until they were able to climb aboard. Best 5 minutes of their day.
What the mommies did during the train ride. It has been a beautiful week weather-wise.
aformentioned (sp?) domino game. Coach K 2 trounced the competition (or the Canadian beer did. Jury's still out)
Superman M & Hoonka made a bottle for KK
Superman M does the dishes
...REALLY does the dishes
thumbs up from Me while the dads play dominos all night - seriously. A good deal of beer was consumed.
after the bike ride but before the zoo.


We're just home from one night of camping in Banff (Johnson Canyon, actually) and it was both fun and insanely stressful. I will post shots of our short but jam-packed night and day tomorrow.

As always, I'm a few days behind in what we've been up to...we rode bikes to the zoo on Monday and then spent the day swimming on Tuesday. Wednesday, we left for camping and now we're back. There are over 150 pictures already, so I'm bound to be behind.

A quick attitude recap that, although there was a lot of uncertainty as to how camping with 9 adults and 3 toddlers would go - it turned out pretty well. We had my dad (Pa Joad's) 30 ft RV, and a 3 room tent. Ironically (or maybe not) everyone except the Coach K 1 family (and 2 kids under 3) slept in the tent. Coach K2 (being the baby of the fam) was also forced to sleep in the RV. On the attitude front, Coach K2 is actually bringing nothing but a positive attitude to the reunion. We are firmly blaming the daily "rosary walk" for his awesome attitude.