Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa

Monday, July 7, 2025

Monday July 7, 2025 Dawn/Tracey

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Monday July 7, 2025

Well, we finally helped enable two people whose paths have crossed and missed many times over the last 40 years to finally meet. Tracey found Dawn on Facebook, after having been friends with her siblings and other friends over that time period.

To make things easier, Dawn and I rode down on the Gio to Churchill Square where the Street Performers are situated. Tracey was having problems with her dog Thor being stubborn, so she came 1/2 hour late without him.

The two girls told stories and reminiscences that most people would not believe, and that I would never repeat, and we had a lot of laughs... Then we took the funicular down from behind the MacDonald to get to a small cafe in the river valley, directly across from the Edmonton Queen Riverboat. We each had a special drink called a Raspberry Matcha Mule which was most unusual and tasty, only 1 oz, but certainly enough for our palates on this hot afternoon. And more stories were told, and more laughs were had.

All in all, it was a great day to be outside with friends, old and new....

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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Hollyhocks are open

at the front of our Manoir

Silly Hall

Street Performers Festival is on

Performers from New York

Dawn

Dawn & Tracey meet for the first time

Two peas in a pod

Silly Hall

Aerial surveillance

Epcor waterfall

The girls

The Riverboat

Looking west over the Low Level Bridge

People going on a Segway tour

More stories

Drink specials

Constructing for an Ice Climb Competition

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Sunday July 6, 2025 Elks

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Sunday July 6, 2025

Last evening was the 29th anniversary of Patsy's passing. It is hard to believe that it has already been that long, and still so fresh in our memory.

I had tentative plans for today but rain, rain, rain all day almost scotched everything. I had given up on going to the 5pm Elks game so I ordered pizza at 4pm. It arrived at 4:15 and the rain had finally stopped. The pizza always comes with dessert, usually banana bread, but today was lemon pie...!! I felt so spoiled....

And the sun was bright and the sky returned to blue, so I dressed and jumped on the Gio and made it to the game on time. The game of the Elks against the Ottawa RedBlacks should have been a walkaway once we were up 22-3 in the first quarter, but no, we had to let them make a game of it.... The halftime show was cute, with 200 budding cheerleader apprentices covering the field.

And Donald and Tracey came over at halftime to find me and say hi. That was nice of them... Next game is next Sunday against BC.

And a man with his wife and daughter stopped near us, let me take their picture, then introduced himself as the grandson of Eskimo great Rollie Miles!!!

I left with about 10 minutes remaining to beat the crowd and caught the last 2 minutes on TV at home. We did win 39-33.

Tomorrow will be a nice day, so there are plans....

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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