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Yellowknife 2018
26
February

Yellowknife: -33 degrees check!, dog sledding check!, ice fishing check!, northern lights next time 😉

Four days in a very cold and peaceful land of Northern Territory. The warmth of the locals stole our hearts.  Met Snow King who builds ice castles since 1995 as a gift to the community, drove on a ice road, ate fish from frozen, Slave Lake and visiting the first nation communities: priceless. Visited Giant (closed for public) Gold mine. We even had chance to g to emergency 😉 . We will be back !

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4th year
08
October

Tradition demands that I post a crystallized view, in 8 minutes phone quality video, of my 4th year. Enjoy!!!! ..and with my favourite background song

Gingers4 from beata kacy on Vimeo.

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Rosa, Jos and Nancy in Vancouver
21
September

At the end of the summer we had visitors from Montreal my dear Tia Rosa and Josee and from Toronto aunty Nancy. It was to my dad’s surprise that Rosa is not a Nun. Why? Mom has been calling her Sister for ages and since Mom doesn’t have a sister, Rosa must be a Nun :)
Mom has known Rosa for the last 20 years, since they both enjoyed living in London when they were young.
Anyhow we had lots of fun together, swimming, baking and exploring. Rosa is like a scientist, she loves experiments and my mom was just running behind us cleaning the mess 😉 ( just a little)
Mom met Nancy about 15 years ago in Vancouver. Nancy was a great climber and they did some epic climbing trips together.
We all celebrated mine and Rosa’s birthday together. It was small party this time, Grandparents, Greg and Tomo, Rosa, Jos, Nancy and of course parents.
Video of one of the experiments below.

Rosa and Ginger as Scientists from beata kacy on Vimeo.

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Summer ends with great events
18
September

Summer ends with great events. Over the last few weeks i was preparing myself to be baptised, mainly getting ready to have my head wet (this is why I don’t like learning how to swim). It was a very special event for me and my whole family. Parents, Grandparents, my dear uncle as my Godfather and aunty Tomo all from Vancouver as well as Ciocia Terrry, Wujcio Klaziu and my godmother Yvonka came for a visit from Kelowna. We all had lots of fun. Mom put a tour guide hat on, and the adventure started in the wilderness with grizzly bears, eating beaver tails and flying over Canada, there was no need for GPS (inside joke). The day before my ceremony my brother Jack and Viv came from the island, all family had lovely dinner together until we got kicked out from the restaurant (sober)
On Monday was the big photoshoot day where grandpa and little tweeny went “back to the future”. Then we admired contemporary art at the VAG, especially the one for $ 2.45 (inside joke).
It was time to say goodbye and hope to see each other soon. Thank you all for making my special day even more special.

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Taylor Swift
01
September

As you can see my mom is catching up on posts. This summer we managed to see my idol Taylor Swift. You can see the concert from 2 different angles as we changed seats to get closer to the stage. Check it out, it was crazy good. Turn your speakers on.

Taylor Swift from beata kacy on Vimeo.

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Walking in special shirt
31
August

There are 2 special reasons for this post. First as a memory from my trip to Europe and secondly, the fact that I am wearing my uncle’s shirt which he wore when he was 4 years old. (about 40 years ago)
The transitions are all over the place as heat, 12 hours of churches after museums and museums after churches ( don’t take me wrong I loved it) didn’t bring patience to the process of filming. It’s all wrapped up in my favourite song. Turn your speakers on and enjoy !:)

Walking Europe 2015 from beata kacy on Vimeo.

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BC, Alberta, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington
20
August

10 days in the wilderness with bears, deers, bisons, and mosquitoes. After 5200 km we are home, ready for showers, wifi and clean clothing. We had a blast!!! First with a great surprised we visited my family in Kelowna, finally I had a chance to play with my 2 furry cousins, and compete with uncle Klaus eating egs. Day after we took off. Every 1000 km we had a team hip hip hurray shout !!!. Jasper and Banff was rather wet and cold, 3 Celsius, felt like in the middle of the summer in Nunavut. We managed to sneak onto a glacier, that was cool and cold. :) Calgary was special in different way. 😉 We were happy to arrive at the next park which was Dinosaur Provincial Park. Fossils, fossils, fossils was the main word we were using for next 2 days. To see dinosaur bones spread all over was something unreal. Next was Waterton Lakes National Park with a black bear encounter, then Glacier National Park with stunning scenery (unfortunately some on fire) and finally our favourite, Yellowstone with bisons. Ask my mom why her already big eyes got even bigger and the engine had to start :) Last day was a time travel to Austria/Germany with my favourite Edelweiss from Sound of Music and 46 Celsius.

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Europe Epic Trip chapter 7, Austria/Germany – THE END
03
August

Our trip is coming to the end, last chapter on our journey to Vienna to meet with my cousins Yanni, Ewa and Sebastian. They live in Montreal. Thank you Air Canada for keeping the prices higher between Vancouver and Montreal than traveling to Europe. 😉
We had an overnight stop in Germany in Bad Reichenhall to jump to thermal pools, as we didn’t have enough of a heat during the trip 😉 . Thats where “The Creation Of Adam” picture comes from – mine and Yvonka’s shadows.
Salzburg was stormy and rainy, we got soaked in our Austrian outfits and it seems like my mom lost her shoes.
Finally Vienna, even more rainy and cold (it felt good). I was hesitant to meet Yanni as I heard he was taller than me, and being younger that is not acceptable no matter how many sardines he ate. Well he was the same height :). We had a blast all together. We both did some Parkour while watching some real deal Parkour team. Attacking Yvonne was our favourite game.
I miss you all dearly.
Last day before my 4 am wake up call to head to the airport we went for a classical music concert.
Even though it was amazing I fell a sleep after intermission.
Mom woke me up day after at 4am and with a smile I said ” mommy time to go home”
Thank you Yvonka, Ewa, Sebastian and ofcourse Yanni for such a great company!!!

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Europe Epic Trip, Chapter 6, Venice in 18th century
03
August

Venice in 18th century in colour.
We found the perfect easy going place to take some pictures, dress up and have fun. “Why not ” (inside joke). We followed our photographer, dress maker, and her dog. Crowds were following us. Did we feel awkward? Yeeees !!!!! Hot? – only temperature wise. 😉 or not.

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Europe Epic Trip, chapter 5, Venice
02
August

Did I mention before that Florence was hot ?! Right, Venice was horribly hot. An apartment with NO air conditioning didn’t help, but at least we had a garden and sprinkler hose to run around. Yvonka developed a new sport, running after mosquitos and slamming them flat to the walls.

Venice was absolutely stunning. We had to celebrate the stay with another “back to the future event” by dressing up ( in the next post). One day we did island hopping and visited glass blowing places and the local cemetery, which covers the entire island from edge to edge.

I think pictures will say it all, Venice you are too beautiful!!!

BTW in the last post from Italy I forgot to mention about the tilted Pisa tower. It was quite a surrealistic place of hundreds of people doing crazy poses in the air. Well it is contagious we did that too. 😉

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