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2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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A whole bunch of awesome stuff

I’ve been a little bit busy. That being said, I’ve still found time for some pretty awesome adventures, during which I snapped a few pictures.

Golfing
This is something I started doing this summer, the first time being on PEI with my family. After that, I was lucky enough to go play a round at Silver Tip Resort as a fundraiser for the Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre, which is a charity I’m becoming very fond of. Check them out, they do pretty amazing stuff. Then, this fall, my team and I played a round at the 9 hole Banff Springs Course. Both it and Silver Tip were just beautiful places to spend a day. I may be awful but I am really starting to enjoy golf.

Powderface Ridge Hike, Kananaskis, AB
This was a cool hike Caper and I did one afternoon. It was not the intended hike we started out the day looking for but once we found ourselves following the signs, we though, what the hell. The hike is a strenuous one, you gain almost 2000ft elevation. Caper was a champ. She had a great time and had energy the whole 14km we hiked that day.

Sparkling Hill Resort. Vernon, BC
This may be one of my favourite new places. This is a pretty upscale resort but the atmosphere is so relaxing. The spa is the main reason we went there and it didn’t disappoint. There is a wide variety of amazing and unique steam and sauna rooms that you can access as a guest. There is an outdoor infinity pool that was made to melt stress away. Although it was a short visit, I cannot wait to get back and hopefully spend a few days there next time.

Waterton National Park, AB
Back in October a few of us went down to Waterton to dive. It was my first time actually diving in that lake and I was pretty excited, despite the severe wind gusts that didn’t exactly start the dive off on a warm note. The wreck doesn’t have too much left anymore. It’s a pretty popular dive site (most are in Alberta because there are so few), so visibility wasn’t the greatest because there were two other groups diving and one of them was doing training. Despite the not ideal conditions, we managed to get two dives in and I got a few shots of the boat. The coolest thing left, by far is the boiler.