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Ed gives The Hunger Games 3 stars out of 5. Not sure why..
John Carter of Mars. 3 stars out of for action, special effects and a generally zany plot.
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Liked the trailer, REALLY liked the movie. 4 stars out of 5.
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Glo decides to see Tintin, after all and Ed gives it 3 1/2 stars out of 5. It was fast, furious and fun!!!
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The second Sherlock Holmes movie, gets 4 stars out of 5 from both Glo & I, for a good, fast-paced action flick.
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Gloria & Ed take a techno-entertainment leap, thanks to the Leduc Santa's Helpers annual auction.
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Gloria & Ed take in yet another movie!!! The motion picture industry must be happy with my retirement, if no one else is. This was Glo's pick and what I thought was going to be a chick-flick turned out to be nothing like I expected.
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Gloria gets a new sewing machine!!!
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Gloria & Ed take in a movie. 5 stars out of 5 for the most enjoyable movie I have seem in years.
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Ed starts taking lessons again. Stay tuned (ha ha). In the meantime, enjoy this.
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Sarah, Gloria and Ed went out to Miquelon Lake on a geocaching expedition. We got questioned by a land-owner, suspicious of our activity, but apparently our story sounded OK. We found 7 out of our target 8 caches, a good day.
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Gloria & Ed go back to Camrose for lunch with Jeremiah and to
take in the
Remebrance Day Geocaching event. The draw prizes netted Gloria a
lanyard and Ed a swag bag (see below), both courtesy of
Space Coast Geocaching Store.
Thanks go to Darnsocks and Churchman for organizing the event and
Space Coast for donating draw prize goodies.
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The Connormeister comes for a visit while his parents party in Las Vegas.
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Glo & Ed spend the day in Camrose, geocaching, meeting Jeremiah for lunch and then watching the 2011 Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships in the evening.
Unaware that the hot air balloon events did not start until 5:00 p.m., Glo & Ed headed off to Camrose just after lunch on Saturday, Sept. 24. After locating the venue, we soon found out that the events did not start until much later. Glo had brought along her iPad so she suggested we do might as well do some geocaching while we were waiting.
We managed to find 5 geocaches with one did-not-find (the same one I have been after for about 3 years now). The weather was sunny and very warm, so warm that Glo had to sit out the last search. That was the did-not-find, by the way. Coincidence? I doubt it. The geocaching took us to some nice parks as well as some industrial areas. I still say that geocaching is a great way to see a town.
We then met Jeremiah for lunch and got to catch up on how things were going for him in Camrose. Most of the downtown restaurants were closed on Sat. afternoon, much to our surprise and we ended up at one of Jeremiah's favourite sandwich outlets, just before they closed up. Turkey sandwiches all around were the order(s)of the day.
After lunch Glo and I headed over to the event venue again, found ourselves some suitable seating and got some snacks (obviously the turkey sandwiches proved insufficient after all that geocaching. The ballons were originally scheduled to launch at 5:00 but did not manage to get completely airborne until about 8:00.
By that time the two of us had enough fresh air and exercise for the day so we decided to head back home. The mass launch of 15 balloons proved to be quite an impressive sight, well worth the wait.
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More geocaching, guitar lessons, reading, watching old TV show DVDs, ...