Disney.  It’s at the heart of childhood…was at the heart of my childhood and now I’m reliving it all with my daughter who is 4 and in complete love with all the characters.  She sleeps with a stuffed Pooh bear every night.  She loves to go to the Disney store and practically breaks out into [...]

Congrats Kelvin!!!  I hope you and your family enjoy the show!   It’s Cirque time again!  And I have tickets for YOU!  I’m so excited that the fine and fabulous folks over at Cirque du Soleil asked me to host a ticket giveaway for the first Calgary showing of  OVO.  Last time, I had such [...]

It’s that time again where things get yummy down at Eau Claire!  There’s lots to do and see and EAT! Admission is free so it’s worth it just to go down and see the entertainment – find out who is playing here..   From the Taste of Calgary Website: The city’s outdoor festival of food [...]

August 8-12th   Check out music from Angélique Kidjo and Shad among many others and celebrate Calgary’s cultural diversity.  Kids 12 & under and Seniors 65+ have free admission to the main event on Aug 13th.  Visit http://www.afrikadey.com/ for infomation and event schedule.   For two decades Afrikadey! has been Western Canada ‘s premiere festival [...]

Living in Calgary means we are surrounded with entertainment the likes of which can’t always be found in small towns.  The city wide Canada Day celebrations offered up free petting zoos, pony rides, music, entertainment and much more.  Yes, that’s the upside.  The downside is – The line for the petting zoo at Fort Calgary [...]

If you’ve got nothing going on this weekend then head out to Canada Olympic Park and check out the VW Freerideing Tour.  Even if you’ve never driven a VW before (I hadn’t), even if you aren’t interested in Volkswagens…it was fun just for racing around the track.  Like, big fun.  Like, go-carts for adults kind [...]

Have you heard of these new social shopping coupon sites?  Have you ever used one? I haven’t….yet.  But I’ve signed up for a few of them and I have to say, the concept is pretty fantastic. YummyMummySaver.Com is the newest one.  It’s social shopping specifically for Alberta deals and will host a variety of fun [...]

  Heritage Park is hands down my favorite attraction the city of Calgary has to offer.  We’ve been a number of times now and each time we see new things and find different experiences to enjoy.  Sunday, we attended A Day Out With Thomas at Heritage Park for the second year.  You can read last [...]

The grass is turning green, the trees have leaf buds on them and the weather has warmed up!  If it snows again you might see my head explode.  Here’s to hoping it stays warm enough to play outside because Little H has a serious cabin fever back up going on.  Can’t you tell by the [...]

Last time I posted about a wine and food fest it started out with an uncharacteristic ‘Squeee!‘ This time, not so much squeeing going on….it’s more like ‘whaaaah!’ because this time, I can’t go   I have a major big girl pout on here people. Pa-Out. But, just because I can’t go doesn’t mean you [...]