Calgary

Over the July 4th holiday, we headed up to Calgary to visit Mirko's sister, Romana, and her family. Nina was very excited to meet her cousins! Stefan is almost 5 and half, and Filip is a little over two years old.

The first meeting of the cousins (aka miracle shot of three kids all smiling looking in the direction of the camera)

In no time the three were best buddies and ready to go off marauding the high seas together.

The boys were quite fascinated by Nina, particularly the fact that she likes to put everything in her mouth.

This shot best captures the interactions between the cousins. Stefan really took to Nina. He was great with her - very gentle, wanted to be with her and play with her all the time. Filip was more interested in doing his own thing, like re-arranging the balcony chairs.

Tetka Romana is happy to hold her niece.

On Friday, we went to Heritage Park - a historical village representative of Calgary around the turn of the last century. They have done quite an amazing job with it too, trains, boats, farm animals, old school houses, everyone in period costumes. Great fun for the kids and interesting for the parents as well. As we were leaving Stefan said, "I want to live in Heritage Park!"

Hightlight of the day was of course the train ride. Do all kids love trains or what?

And a close second was the boat ride.

Indeed, Nina experienced variety of transportation modes. Here is a not-so-old fashioned buggy ride.

In addition to Heritage Park, much time was spent in the neighborhood park.

Nina really dug the swings!

Fun for the whole family!

But for me, the next picture sums up the weekend particularly well. Many hours were spent enjoying wonderful food and company around the dinner table.

Let's chow!