{lethbridge coulees, part two}

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Next we climbed up this hill to that little cazebo there.

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The university of Lethbridge is on the top left corner. It kind of "hugs" the coulees slopes.

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That's where we just came from. The bridge really is amazing. A train went over it when we were underneath and it was wild.

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Jay set up the camera to get a group photo of us.

We have been friends with Dan & Connie since about 1993. We got to know each other in Edmonton while Dan was going to school here. Then Jay and I moved to Fort Chipewyan, Dan & Connie lived a while in Arizona. They moved to Lethbridge, we moved to Lethbridge. We moved to Edmonton, they moved to Edmonton. They moved to Raymond. Traitors!! :D

Dan is a police officer. He went to Japan on his mission so he speaks Japanese.

Connie used to work as a dental assistant. Now she is a busy mom who makes the BEST puffed wheat squares.

We love these guys!

Friends are forever too! Y

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Madison (Maddie) & Emmalie (Emma) & Sienna.
Sienna had so much fun playing with the kids again. Dan & Connie have a huge house. Dan's parents live in the same house "on the other side". The door is usually open for the kids to freely go back and forth. And they do. It's the perfect set up when your parents get too old to be on their own but still want their privacy too. It's fun for them to be able to be part of the kids' lives so much.
Every time we go to D&C's it makes me a bit sad that Sienna is the only child. It would be nice to have someone there to play with her all the time. Maybe some miracle will happen yet.
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Ben climbed way up high. Sienna sure likes Ben too. She gets this cute smile on her face when she talks about him.
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Then I found these three more pictures online to show the coulees & the prairie better.
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Someone altered the colors in this picture. It's lot more pretty in reality. Not so red. Sienna said "Haybales!" at least 100 times on our way there and back. :D Me too, I guess. I love the haybale fields. And the mountains on the background reminded me how I miss them. Wish we'd make it to them more often. Dan & Connie are lucky. Beautiful Waterton is only about an hour from them. We have to drive three hours to get to Jasper.
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