Moooooose (and other delicacies)

Well, it is now less than 2 weeks until we leave Kamloops and while we are still right into our regular life, packing is now on the agenda, and I wonder how I will get 11 cases worth of stuff into 8!!! We will see....

Frank is busy at work getting end of semester things finalised. Liam is right into school. The junior classes went to a brass performance at the Sagebrush Theatre yesterday and he enjoyed telling me all about the instruments. His reading is such that he passed a library test to be allowed to borrow from the 'chapter book' section. He borrowed a Pokemon novel (!!).

Phoebe has grown and her snowsuit is now too short in the arms and legs. Unfortunately we are in a cold snap, and she gets very upset if her feet are cold...... She is speaking really well. She was playing with a cup this morning and saying, "Upside down, upside up. Upside down, upside up!" I thought it was pretty cute.

We had a very pleasant and delicious weekend seeing friends and catching up on some things we wanted to do before we leave. On Saturday we brunched at Hello Toast before doing some final souvenir shopping at the gallery. That night we had a great beef roast at Tom and Teresa's place. Liam had a great time with Ian, Eric and Ben playing video games. Phoebe enjoyed feeding Millie (the dachshund) cheese!!

At Hello Toast

Tom, Millie and feeder Phoebe

On Sunday we brunched at Nico and Louise's. Nico does a great Sunday pancake brunch! We enjoyed our pancakes with a range of sweet and savoury toppings. My pick - home bottled peaches and cream. Nico very kindly offered to look after Liam and Phoebe while Frank and I did a Costco shop.





Nico on the bacon

Phoebe, Liam, Adam and Sean



At the table

We cooked up a moose steak last night! After some discussion with others I decided to marinate it in a homemade BBQ sauce (recipe courtesy of Kim) and it was delicious! Notoriously tough, the meat was fairly tender and the flavour was great! Liam was somewhat bemused at the idea of eating moose, but not put off!!! Next will be burgers made with another game meat that is in our freezer....we have forgotten what it is, but Frank thinks it might be elk.

Frank cooking the moose on the BBQ.
It was only 10 below!

The moose meal.