This past weekend it finally started to feel like the Christmas season for me. Even though I was finished my Christmas shopping in October, I’ve had my tree up with wrapped gifts underneath since mid-November and I’ve been doing little Christmas DIY’s in my spare time for over a month now I still didn’t quite feel as though the season had begun. Now it has.
On Friday night Ryan and I went to the Snowflake Festival in St Albert to see the big tree lighting. Of course, we didn’t actually see the lights come on, but we weren’t really there for that anyway. 95% of the reason we came was to ride on the horse drawn wagon! We saw them last year but the line up to get on was crazy.
When we arrived we were quickly distracted by a free photo booth and got in the short line to have our picture taken. We knew the line would only grow as the event went on.
As with the photos we knew the longer we waited the longer the horse line up would get. In fact, it was already really long when we got there. Fortunately for me, the line was still at a length that we were willing to stand for and we happened to be right beside a booth giving out free hot chocolate!!
We did end up waiting quite a while but amused ourselves with people watching. And once we got on our straw covered wagon and headed off into the crowded streets, we continued to watch the people around us.
The rest of the evening was spent checking out the different booths and hunting for free cookies. We found donuts instead!
On Sunday we went to Elk Island again. It's been quite a while since we visited and we felt like getting out for a hike.
We chose a 3km Trail that we haven't done before, bundled up in our winter layers and got going. We both walk fairly fast so the Trail only lasted about 45 minutes or so and was pretty uneventful, just a nice walk through the trees and a good excuse to be outside. What was more exciting was actually seeing some animals along the road this time! We saw several Bison within a few feet of the car and also a Coyote down by one of the ponds. We very excitedly stopped to snap a few photos before going back home.
I love that we live so close to one of the National Parks and we get the opportunity to be away from the city without needing to drive for hours.
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