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Our passports expired a couple of weeks after we returned from our trip to Florida in February. We knew it was coming up, and even considered getting new ones before the trip, but for various reasons, decided to wait until we got back. Of course, things got busy and we left it for a while. No big deal. We just returned from a  trip, we won't need passports anytime soon. Then, it was a few weeks after they expired, and my husband and I started to get nervous. A little jittery. Just a bit...panicked. OUR PASSORTS HAVE EXPIRED!!! What if we decide to go somewhere and we can't get new ones in time??? What if a great travel opportunity comes up, or a business trip is required??? Oh my goodness, we NEED to get to the passport office right away!

Last weekend we took our two eleven year olds and four year old boys to Day Out With Thomas at Heritage Park in Calgary, AB. It was a really nice afternoon, we all enjoyed ourselves very much. Day Out With Thomas includes storytelling, tattoos and face painting, crafts, musical entertainment and model train displays. Not to mention the giant Thomas store, photos with Sir Topham Hat, and of course, the best part, the ride on a train pulled by Thomas himself. Heritage Park is a wonderful setting, and added to the afternoon with food and drinks, wooden mazes, carousel and mini-ferris wheel, candy and ice cream shops, and my personal favourite, the bakery. There was a bit of a treasure hunt, the kids collected stamps at each station, and handed in their completed sheet for a prize. The prize wasn't great, but the game kept the older boys entertained. The Little One loved it all, even though he said he didn't want to go see Thomas in the first place. The highliht for him? The new train he brought home from the Thomas store.

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