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Sandos Caracol All-Inclusive Resort, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

Sandos Caracol is the name of the resort we’ve booked for our hot holiday this winter. We’re pretty excited – as one review I read online observed: “One of the best things about this resort is that it has all the things you’d normally pay extra for as excursions or at least for an extra […]

¶ Posted 16 October 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: allinclusive, economics, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Next Trip Is Booked

We’ve had a lot of trips in the interim but we haven’t been to Mexico since 2004. But we’re about to correct that – we just booked our next winter trip!

¶ Posted 13 October 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel

North Korea Accidentally Makes Some of Its Restricted Web Sites Available Worldwide

In most professions, you try to learn all you can about a single area. One of the coolest things about librarians/librarianship is that it’s a profession where you benefit from knowing a little bit about a lot of things. This story combines a few of my many varied interests – the Internet, North Korea, propaganda, international politics, […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2016 § Censorship § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § News § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language

Fall on the Prairies

My dad’s (and I suspect most farmers’) favourite season…

¶ Posted 31 August 2016 § Family § Jobs § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents, saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Niagara Falls Barrier Coated In Ice (February 2006)

Soon after Shea came to join me in London when I started my Masters degree in January 2006, we rented a car and like the good tourists we were, headed for Niagara Falls. Going to the falls in mid-winter seems strange but someone (a classmate?) had tipped us off that they’re actually really beautiful in […]

¶ Posted 11 August 2016 § Canada § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ontario

Ten Reasons Our Recent Camping Trip Was Perhaps Our Best Ever

We’re back from a week and a half of camping – one week at Greenwater Provincial Park and then, after a quick night in Regina, another few days at Shea’s parents’ seasonal site in Weyburn. Both parts were great but Shea and I agreed that the week in Greenwater was maybe our best camping trip […]

¶ Posted 03 August 2016 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, parents

Saturday Snap – Gone Camping!

We’re off camping for the next couple weeks so posts will likely be few and far between…unless the kids end up building a really cute fort out of firewood and I have to post a picture! 😉

¶ Posted 23 July 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – Our New rPod182G Camper (August 2014)

Hard to believe we’ve already had our camper for three summers (well, two and a bit since we bought it near the end of the season three years ago.) We’ve had a lot of fun with it so far, travelled to parks across the province and after a quick trip out to Rowan’s Ravine last weekend […]

¶ Posted 20 July 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, cute, holiday, saskatchewan

Pokemania!

So you have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the new augmented reality map-based game, Pokemon Go!. I first heard about it when it was all over Reddit, soon after its release in early July. I have to be honest – my first reaction was to ignore it as I thought of […]