Mother's Day On the Prairie

Mother's Day - a great day to take it easier than normal and enjoy your family! Both boys had to work today, so between shuttling them back and forth, Marc and I went on a great drive. We usually head west when we go for our drives because of the mountains and all of the wildlife we usually see. Today though, we decided to head east and I'm really glad we did. True, driving east from Calgary means many, many large, mostly flat wheat fields, but the sky is sooo amazing...

We also decided to follow a sign that directed us to an island. We thought it a bit of a strange sign because we were, after all, in the middle of many large wheat fields. We took the sign at face value, and we're glad we did. It turns out that the prairie opened up into a river valley and we found some things we didn't know even lived in Alberta......

PELICANS!

And LOTS of them!

We also saw some beautiful ducks!

We stopped for a little break for Buster, and saw some more interesting things

Then, in honor of the opening weekend of the new Star Trek movie, we took a little side trip to Vulcan

And then we ended the day with a fabulous dinner cooked by my awesome husband and our first fire of the year!

Hope all of you mothers had a fabulous day being spoiled by and enjoying your families!

Cathy