Annual Hockey Game

Our cheerleading section!
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Both teams post game photo
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For the past 5yrs now we’ve been gathering at our good friends Barb and Rick’s place challenging the kids to a hockey game on Link’s rink on the lake. The annual ‘Parents vs Kids’ game has become a real highlight of our winter activities. The Parent Team was coming into this year with a perfect 4-0 record, but we quickly found our hands full with a kids squad of 12 and all 6 of us parents trying to defend our title! The kids jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead before we started to claw our way back. In regulation time (first team to score 10), there seemed to be a bit of controversy on how the parents managed to get 10 goals first while the kids had only 8. So with kids dreams almost shattered, we decided on a good ol’ shootout. Well the kids displayed their true ability in whooping our butts 4-0 in the shootout. So a big congrats to Team Kids for finally de-throning “The Champs” after all these years.
We will have our parental revenge! Hmmm, house chores anyone?
Stay Cool…

Winter Snow Kiting

Well this Christmas season has been extremely busy with work, family and everything else I seem to find myself getting into to use up my spare time. I’m making a New Years resolution (haha) to try and not be so busy all the time! I can just hear Woodette saying ” Oh, I’ll find something for you to do”, so I better be careful for what I wish for!
The Woody’s had just a terrific Christmas this year and Woodette is now the proud owner of her first kite! It’s a 6m Flysurfer ‘2Cool’. Quite the appropriate name for her I might add. We flew the kite yesterday on Christmas Day in light winds. It was perfect winds for her to get the hang of flying it. She’s genuinely stoked about learning to snowkite which I think is pretty cool. My younger sister Guin flew in from Toronto to spend Christmas with the family again this year, which I think is pretty cool too!
Guin brought her 9m Monkey ‘Griffin’ kite with her!
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Going over the kite safety system(s) with Woodette
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Guin hooked in flying my 10m Ozone Access kite
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Woodette powered up with my bro Al and Guin in the background
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Guin and Woodette filling the sky with colour
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Woodette showing us how it’s done! You can see from this video (thanks Al) when one of the previous pictures were taken. Cool!

I trust you all had a very Merry Christmas, and our wishes go out to you for a happy, healthy, safe, enjoyable, full-on ‘ride’ into the New Year.
Have fun in life!!

A little update

After shoveling 4′ snow drifts around the FJ.
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Driving back to Dryden in a snow storm. Not fun!
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It’s that time of year when we just can’t seem to do much in the area of ‘windsports’. Our lakes have frozen over now, but with the loads of snow we’ve been having the past week(s), it’s making for some uncertain ice conditions. I hope we can get our ice shack out on the lake soon as ‘The Shack’ is a great place to warm up when we go out snowkiting.
Hope you’re all getting ready for Christmas!
Stay Cool…

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