Thursday, August 8, 2013

Our First Overseas Adventure!!

We've been home almost 3 weeks so I thought I'd better get some photos posted about our amazing trip to Canada and USA!!  Here is a tiny selection of the 850 I took!!

We had 2 weeks with the Emma's school travelling around Canada and some of the USA, and we then had 5 nights in Orlando, Florida to see Ryan while he's there for 13 weeks water ski training.


Beautiful Vancouver Harbour


Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco


Lombard Street - the crookedest street in the world - San Francisco


The most famous streetscape - you might recognise it as the "Full House" house - San Francisco


Alcatraz Island - excellent tour - San Francisco


Emma looking a bit bewildered about the size of her breakfast!


Every second vehicle is a "pickup truck"!!


Custer's Last Stand - Montana


The water towers in every town.


Oil rigs or "grasshoppers" as they're called are on almost every farm throughout Montana


Our fabulous host family in Sidney, Montana - Krista, Kathy, Kirk, Hailey and Jared


The prairies heading towards Canada - all wheat and canola


We visited a Huterite community near Sasskatoon, Saskatchewan.  They farmed 12,000ac, had a large commercial dairy, beef feedlot and poultry farm to support the 105 people living there.


All the females wore neck to ankle outfits with headscarves, and they all wore their hair this way


Our teenagers were fascinated with the Huterite teenagers, just as they were fascinated by ours!


It was 30 degrees when we drove through a huge hailstorm


Very odd!


American red barns were everywhere


Calgary Tower


Emma and one of the Calgary Stampede mascots


Visiting the Calgary Stampede


The chuck wagon races - so much action and super fast horses!


An Indian village at the Stampede


Canadian Mounties


Calf roping at the Stampede Rodeo


The bullrider who wins on the final day takes home $100,000 prizemoney!!


Heading for the Canadian Rockies


The Fairmont Hotel at Banff


Castle Rock 


Farmer Phil and I at Lake Louise - this was the highlight for me!


Beautiful Lake Louise


Friendly critters!


Moraine Lake - so blue it was ridiculous!


Farmer Phil and Emma heading up the valley to the Colombia Icefields


Athabasca Glacier


Some of the Yanco kids posing with the Canadian flag on top of the glacier


Gorgeous lake and Rockies


The luckiest kids in the world!


Hogwarts Castle at Universal Studios, Orlando Florida


Emma was super excited to have a "butter beer"


The Weasley car


Sea World, Orlando Florida


Ryan jumping at Lake Grew, Orlando


Ryan, Jason, Hilary, Jeff, Nic, Casey and Michael - more of the luckiest kids in the world!

2 comments:

Fiona said...

Looks like an amazing trip Donna, I'm quite envious, but not so much as Wallace when I showed him the photo of Hogwarts!
Canada is top of the list of places I want to visit ... once I get these kids through boarding school and Uni!

Lea said...

This looks amazing ..I agree with you-very lucky kids. My hubby and I managed to spend a day in Banff. It was the end of a six month trip and we had a family emergency and had to come home so we squeezed in a day trip to Banff. We went hiking and enjoyed the hot springs. Fingers crossed we make it back there one day. Your photos are beautiful. It looks like a wonderful holiday.