Edmonton at last!

Laolao and Laoye have a small backyard but it's still got room to enjoy. Mustang remembered the tent from last year, so we had to haul it out and set it up, along with a little picnic table rescued from the Thrift Store. Great play space for kids!


The school I went to as a child (Grades 2-6) is just half a block away and has a nice, huge, modern playground (was a lot more basic when I was a kid!) We visited the playground nearly every day.


Laoye had also done a couple of "road-side purchases" of kid's bikes, so there was one for each of them to enjoy. Since it's a quiet street and alley, they were able to zoom up and down on their own when they wanted to.
We made a visit to the Edmonton Valley Zoo. It's not a huge zoo, with a number of small "petting" animals, like this very large family of guinea pigs:

But they do have some larger animals too:

And offer pony rides (three times around a small circle) to kids: