One of the reasons you travel with children is the opportunity to learn about and experience the world in the way they can’t from a classroom or even books.
Here’s a few examples:
5. On the way into Calgary, her brother is “helpfully” giving her a history lesson. “A long time ago, there was a farmer who had a cow named Gary. And when they were trying to think of a name for the city, they decided naming it after a cow was as good as anything so they called the city Cow Gary.”
4. Once we corrected this interesting interpretation of Calgary’s name, Sasha ended up mispronouncing it most of the week anyhow – calling it “Cal-a-gary” – which we didn’t bother to correct because frankly, it was pretty cute.
3. This is technically something she first said in Regina but she said it in Calgary too so I’m counting it – when she saw all the skyscrapers, Sasha said “Look at all the sky highers!”
2. On the drive out, we noticed a lot of campers on the highway. So Sasha and I ended up having a game where we’d get a point for every camper we spotted coming towards us on the other side of the highway. She was winning 8-5 as I kept telling her to look out the window when I’d see an interesting “cow” or “lake” which just happened to be visible at the same time as an RV was passing. But then I couldn’t let the opportunity pass when I saw an RV lot outside Medicine Hat. “One hundred points!” I blurted excitedly. When Sasha saw what I was looking at, she said “Dad! I forgot to tell you – the game was over a few minutes ago.” 🙂
1. At the zoo, we come around a corner and see a couple zebras in front of us. “Zebras are real?!?” Sasha asks with a mix of wonder and excitement. Turns out that even though she’d seen photos and videos featuring zebras (live ones, not just cartoons), she somehow put “Zebras” in the same category as “Unicorns” in her brain! 🙂
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