Just a couple of pictures from yesterday's little walk with the international centre. We visited the Silver Skate festival in Hawrelak park (which in summer was the location of the Heritage festival I failed to report on).

They had sculptures, but in contrast to Ice on Whyte they looked more like made of snow than of ice. I really liked this one, a combination of a female dancer and an eagle.

Then we also had a version of bannock, a traditional food of the natives. A dough of flour and water (ours was sweetened with cinnamon or sugar) is wrapped around a stick and cooked over open fire.

Actually I had planned to return today evening to see the sculptures in the dark but dismissed the plan because I caught a little cough. I'm sure it was the skating. Yep, skating. For the first time since more than ten years I stood on skates. Terrible. Well, I managed to survive the whole hour without falling a single time but I was close quite often. I'm sure you can see on my posethat I was not very stable. It definitely was an experience for Ali, who arrived here from Iran only a couple of weeks ago. For the first time he did a good job and at least he tried unlike his countryman didn't dare. Despite my insecurity I enjoyed it very much. I really should go again - preferably earlier than in 10 years time...

For technical reasons I couldn't use a slide-show.. sorry you have to click on each photo separately..