so, this is it...day 15 of 24 days of vacation, and so far so good. a lot of running, a lot of fun, some climbing, hiking, eating, swimming, some good stuff, some really bad stuff, a lot of really great music, a lot of sun, some neat hikes, and some quality family time.
i find it hard to believe that death race was alost 13 days ago and that the edmonton folk fest ended 5 days ago...and what a good time that was!!..i missed the 1st night (darn, so wanted to see and hear aimee mann!)...but what i saw after that was just great!!....a lot of names that i knew (the duhks, broken social scene, ron sexsmith, serena ryder, martha wainwright and hawksley workman) and some that i didn't (outlaw social, alison brown, dan frechette, la musgana, karine polwart and michael rault) were all amazing. it's funny, i always love everything i see and hear on the side/session stages, and always leave before the end of the main stage acts finish...but love the hill (why is it so hard to do hill repeats on this thing, and so easy to repeat them during the fest?), the food as always was great (green onion cakes rule man!) and for once the weather, the hot hot sun, rocked!!
the best act of the weekend..that's tough, toss up between newcomer samantha schultz and maybe karine polwart...but alison brown and the carolina chocolate drops were an amazing surprize as well...bellowhead, catherine maclellan, and broken social scene ruled too!!!
before the folk fest of course there was 3 days in jasper with most of my family....left the oldest, jessica, at home (she's a working girl...)but brought the rest, and it was a good mini week. managed to nail a couple of good kiddie hikes...mtn edith cavell, and overlander falls were highlights..and was amazed that the kids and the wife enjoyed some of the hikes..not all, but they especially picked up the pace when they knew we were almost done.
and after folk fest, we headed for a week in banff..and wow, another good week (with a couple of exceptions....)..got in at least one hike a day, grassi lakes, the top of tunnel mountain, around lake louise...and ate a lot....and wandered around banff and canmore more then i ever had...in fact, had never been to lake louise either, so i discovered as much as the kids did...
BUT
had a few bad days too....at the folk fest and in banff sasha had a couple of complete meltdowns, and the first night that me and wife did the folk fest, she really lost it with my mom the baby sitter...and there were major events!...again, sasha's a very strong girl, and strong minded too...don't know how were gonna get her to focus more, learn how to control herself, and really understand what's right and what's wrong...think she knows all this, but when she goes off the deep end, all her sense of reasoning seems to go out the window...don't know if we have to alter her meds, get her into some intense therapy, or what, and what this means for her future..she's 15 going on 16, about to enter grade 9...so the future's coming fast...biggest problem now is, we've lost a baby sitter (my mom), any chance of getting an aid in the near future...a visit to her Md before the start of school may help, and hope getting back to school and back into a routine helps, but again...what happens if she has a melt down at school?....i keep thinking if approached wrong, she could seriously hurt someone..not on purpose, but i don't think that matters...i'm thinking september is gonna lead to some interesting times, and hopefully good times....
anyway, tomorrow morning a 5 peaks cross country race, next week it's a olympic distance tri..and then it's back to work...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
oh, and did i mention that i managed to faint in the banff hot springs pool???
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