This week Lara is at one of her favourite summer camps - the Sports and Adventure week at Calgary Olympic Park. She's got a morning of cycling today, but so far this week she's done Parkour for the first time, which she really enjoyed, and a zipline and summer luge (go-carting down a winding course). Here's the full list of things that are keeping her busy:
Last week we took the trailer to Gull Lake for a few days, then moved 100km west to the town of Rocky Mountain House, where we stayed at a resort called Wilderness Village. This was so Lara could meet up with other families from her ski club for some summer training, and so the parents could get to know each other better.
Here are some photos from the week:
One of those photos didn't come out right in the slideshow, so here's a better version of it:
Lara has been at a Drama Summer Camp this week, and she has been learning a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing the character of Peter Quince, complete with one of my best ties and my "old man's cap", as she called it.
She was very good, she knew all her lines, and where she should be, she was just a little quiet, but at the end all the kids were awarded a certificate based on something they had contributed to the week, and Lara got "Best Group Leader", which sounds about right. The teacher in charge was surprised to find out that Lara was only 8, she thought she was 9 or 10..
Lara enjoyed it so much that we have signed her up for Monday night classes with the same teacher throughout Autumn and Winter, which will replace Taekwondo. Wednesday's taekwondo will also be replaced by ski racing classes at Olympic Park, so her white dobok will be put aside for a while, perhaps until Dan takes over!
Here's a quick post with a video of Lara's group dance from today's Airdrie Skating Club Gala.
In order to try and identify her, Lara is the second tallest girl in the group, and starts off second from the back of the group of girls when they come out onto the ice...
