Winter at Wagner Lake

Hi Everyone,

No doubt you have been busy reading our latest blog on Quebec, its been pretty hectic here so I am rather behind with my postings.The last few weeks have seen James start school finally and he is loving it makes it easy when you are the most popular kid in the school because you have a cool accent. He has a girlfriend already and has met lots of nice guys, he has joined the rugby team at school (not normal in a Canadian school) but they are very good and have a really good Coach all done inside of course. He does weights in the afternoons and seems to be keeping out of trouble. He has also met some really nice kids around the area and he has been lucky enough to borrow a sled from a friend which he can ride around with the other kids. Sleds or snow mobiles are the preferred method of transport here everyone has one and they are lots of fun, they sled around on the lake and through the forest each afternoon I guess its the equivalent of the of road motor bike. He is also going to venturers with his mate so he has really settled in well.

Steph is doing very well at school she seems to have found her niche, took a while but she seems happy now, she is well we have an appointment at the Sick childrens hospital for her next week she has grown and put on weight which is very pleasing. She has found a good ballet school which she loves and also does ski club on Wednesday arvos.

Kevin is still looking for work he has a few things coming up which look promising but times are hard here and there is a lot of unemployment in the province, hopefully he can get some teaching work soon this would be good. He is enjoying himself with the local lads though goes down to the skating rink on the lake and helps clear it, enjoys beers with the lads usual boy stuff.

I am finding school remarkably easy compared to home I only teach yr 10 and 11 and they are very polite and friendly, the school is more like a private school in Aus so I am very comfortable.

I have made some lovely friends around the Lake and we are continually invited out for drinks and parties its very overwhelming but fun.

The weather got quite warm and melted a lot of the ice and snow in February and they called it the February thaw everything was flooding, then it got cold again and iced up and lots of accidents occured, very fickle weather they have here. Anyway we are still surrounded by a good metre of snow its very pretty, when it all melted it was very messy and slushy.

These are photos around our house after the latest snow storm.

This is our front drive This is the view over the back yard