The Woodpecker Might have to go!

Thanks Murr!

De-Icing prior to take off from Edmonton Flt 501

First layer of spray for de-icing

Second spray of the wings with a nice neon green gooey substance.

We left Murray and Helen's at 6 am and Murr drove us to the airport in windy snowy conditions. The roads were pretty bad with the temperature at -23 plus the wind chill.  Our plane left 15 minutes late because the wings needed to be de-iced. 

Ok, time to leave!!

Brrr.  Time to go home.

One last Oilers photo

The retired numbers of the Oiler greats.  (who is Hamilton??)

Oilers v Bruins

The Oilers played the Boston Bruins on Sunday night. Although they lost the game 3-2 and were outshot 40-17 (exact opposite of Friday nights game) it was very entertaining and the Oliers played with a lot of intensity.

The bottom picture is of Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle who are two of the new crop of Oiler Young Guns.  They are exciting players to watch and will help rebuild this franchise.  

Edmonton Winter 2011

House of Daryl Katz, owner of Rexall Drugs and the Edmonton Oilers

I think Gary shoveled at least 3 times

What do you do with an eight foot snow head?  Finger up the nose.

We thought our faces would freeze off.

Very cool (no pun intended) ice sculptures.

More photos of William Hawrelak Park taken by Murray.  Thanks bud!  You can see we are not too warm.

William Hawrelak Park - Edmonton

It was soooooo cold and windy on Sunday afternoon in the river valley.

Snow much in Edmonton? LOL

They have a pile of snow like this in every quadrant of the city.  The road clearing crews bring it to their respective area in the North, South, East or West and dump it.  The bulldozers then bring it up to the top.  This pile is HUGE.  There was so much snow!

Another Oil Kings goal

We moved down into the lower bowl during the 1st intermission and were treated to the action up close.  The Oil Kings defeated the Hurricanes 5-2 and are in playoff contention.

Edmonton Oil Kings score v Lethbridge Hurricanes

We decided to take in a Western Hockey League game on Saturday night and watched the Edmonton Oil Kings play the Lethbridge Hurricanes.  At least we were able to watch one Edmonton hockey team win a game this weekend. There were over 8,000 fans (largest attendance this year) in the building.