“Down Day”

Today we slept in, had a slow morning, ate some leftovers, and did some laundry. We also celebrated Father’s Day by taking Jon to downhill karting in Calgary (at one of the sites of the 1988 Olympics). He seemed to enjoy this. We rode up on some ski lifts (much easier to get in them without a snowboard attached!). Surprisingly Caleb (usually my hesitant kid) took to it quickly and enjoyed speeding down the hill (beating us all), as did Sam, but Grace (my usual speed-demon and thrill-seeker) went very slowly her first trip down and was nervous about having to steer herself, and I had to convince her to try and go a second time. By the third, and final, trip down the hill, they were all speeding down. The kids and I were able to speed up faster than Jon, but he got up to a higher top speed for sure, just like in Mariokart, guess that makes Jon Donkey Kong 😂😂😂. It seems Caleb and Sam are both fine going fast if they feel they have some level of control, and Grace prefers to go fast when somebody else is in charge or she’s on a track, like with rollercoasters. I’m definitely not looking forward to trying to teach her how to drive someday. Afterwards, we went back to our Airbnb and Caleb got to finish watching his birthday movie on the iPad (as he only got to watch the first half or so on his actual birthday because it was so late by the time we got in to the Airbnb). Later, we went out to dinner at Smitty’s, which was not very busy. The food was decent (me and the kids breakfast food was good, Jon was underwhelmed by his too-thin roast beef) though they apparently have no clue what sweet tea is (Jon ordered sweet tea and was served hot tea).Read more