On the road again... to Picture Butte (Friday Aug 8)

It was another 4 hours in the car, but the drive was so nice it seemed to pass quickly. It was the perfect time of year to be driving around Alberta. The canola is just beginning to flower and looked so pretty, the wheat is being harvested and the flax was beautiful.

It's funny how after driving this same road all my life, when I drive it now it still has a strange familiarity to it.

I took this pic as I was driving by this pretty wheat field

Have you ever seen so many bales? This field went on and on...

This field of flax was so pretty I had to take a picture

This is a picture of the old sugar factory where MY great grandpa used to work (and my grandma). It was always the first thing we looked for on the horizon as we got closer to Picture Butte. Once spotted we knew we were almost there!

We had a nice lunch with Grandma Reeder, Auntie Patti and Tobie's boys.Unfortunately Abby woke up with the stomach flu Friday morning and stayed home with gramma and missed the visit. It was a sweltering humid day probably close to 30 degrees, but Grandma Reeder made sure the kids had plenty to eat and popsicles and juice to keep them cool.

The kids tried to play, but it was so hot they didn't last too long out in the sun. We still managed to stay at the park for close to 2 hours though. I took a video of Ethan's favorite activity at the park

Grandma Reeder with a few of her "Great Grands" After our picnic in the park we went to visit Grandma Cook. She had a hard time keeping us all straight as we bombarded her tiny apartment and even remembered days later that we had come to visit.
I wanted to get a picture of this too, before they tear it down like all the others around southern Alberta.
It was good to go down to Picture Butte and see the Great Grandmas!

I took some video of the country side as I passed through Stavely.