Cake Pops... attempt numero 1

I got to make cake pops!! So exciting. Ive wanted to for a while, but I didn't want them around afterwards! So it worked out perfectly when I was visiting some friends and they wanted some made for a baby shower they were hosting. They provided the goods, and I got to make cake pops! Win-win. They didn't turn out too shabby... minus the mess, and the icing cracking.

Island Ice

This past weekend I was visiting some of the islander's and we got the opportunity to go ice fishing! It was pretty cold, but after we got bundled we had a pretty good time. I have to admit we didn't catch a thing... but you should have seen the size of the fish we saw!
Everyone minus Simon


If you can believe it. This used to be the hut that held a max of 4. Nothing like smashing the record and cramming all 10 of us! Not easy considering more than half is an open hole! trying not to fall in was all part of the experience.


These crabs.. can't remember the name, came in off ships and provide some not so welcomed competition for the ice fishers! This one is no longer a problem..


Eventually we got the key for a second, roomier hut! I got to clean the ice off the top.. with a huge pan. Everyone was so excited about this... it may have taken a little longer than the norm..




After we realized we had no future as ice fisher..girls, we decided to create a new sport. Ice running!




Brittany and Shannon

Mont Tremblant

The Laird's rented a condo in Mont Tremblant for a week and invited me along! So I bought some ski's found to driving buddies and made the 11 hour treck over. It was so amazing. Unfortunately I don't have many pictures.

Renous Highway on the way there!


Amongst the shops at the bottom of the hill. We came here every day for lunch at ' Le Shack' soo good


View from the last little strech of the hill.


Le Shack! and a few of the crowd

Small car road trip!

Packed up poor Bet's and drove over to the island for the weekend. We were the lovely welcoming committee for the Seeber's. Welcome back from New Zealand! We're staying at your house. We are that nice. Was a beautiful weekend!

View from the Seeber's living room window :)


Decided to take a stroll around Charlotte Town and see the sights. Unfortunately nothing is open in the winter except for the wonderful Art Gallery (shockingly empty), the mall and the catholic church. But it was a beautiful day for a walk.

A tad nippy for swimming


Where confederation was held... maybe? Some meeting anyways, couldn't get inside to find out: 'open every day'....


Art Gallery:







Steve Sholtz, his brother and sister in law were also there for the weekend!


Tim and Sandra Seeber

Jaydee, Jess and the KiKi's

Every Sunday at Grams I have the privilege of hanging out with these little cuties. They all grow way too fast!

Jessie love's her little cousins. She even gave them their nickname Kiki. She doesn't quite understand that they can't quite stand up and follow her when she takes them by the hand. She's full of mischief!! Crazy little kid


Kierstyn makes the BEST faces



Katelyn



Always a battle over what the other one has.






Gram and Jaydee having a little game with a ball of... tinfoil. Pots and Pans and Tinfoil balls, children love it here! seriously.

ABU SIMBEL! The most expensive tour of our trip but of course my favorite! Three hour trek out here, convoys of tourists travel out only two times a day, the trip is through the desert and it makes tourists easy targets so they all go in huge groups and with tourist police spread out through the vans/buses etc. So Abu Simbel was built by King Ramses III. it was built out of the heart of the moutain so the whole temple is one peice. When they damed the Nile river the temple was covered so they cut the temple in 40 000 peices and relocated it to this spot. The temple however, was built in a very particular manner. The chambers inside the temple were built in such a way that the back most chamber was lit only twice a year by the sun, Feb 21st and Oct 21st. The year he was crowned and his birth year. when they moved the temple they made an inch of a mistake and now it is lite on the 22nd of both months.... aw. haha.



Here is the temple out of the same mountainn that was built for King Ramses III's wife.. well one of them he had 52. Apparently this one was the most beautiful woman in Egypt. Fun fact, he also married his daughter, who is present in all of his statues... you can see her in between his feet in the first picture (all statues are of him in that picture)



This next picture was taken inside a house in a Nubian village, in this house they raise crocs until they are 10 months and then put them in the nile. Apparently crocodiles are having a hard time now with the dam. They also had four croc eggs that they showed us, were supposed to be hatching in a couple of weeks.

This is a Felluca! We spent a day on one, floating down the Nile.

Wow it seems like forever since Egypt. Here is a picture of maybe the only flowers in Egypt! no but really, flowers are so much prettier there because they are so rare. I think we took pictures with most of the ones we came across



Heres a picture at the pool at our Isis resort is Aswan. Niceee spot. After coming from Cairo it was 5 star to us



A picture of a man making Paprus paper, it's made out of the stem of the papyrus plant, a bit of a procedure but it is supposed to last forever, its what the ancient egyptians used back in the day.



The Sphinx! So cool to see, this was one of my must see's of Egpyt.