I spent most of my day shopping for some winter tires for my Mini Cooper and in the evening I washed my car and took some fall photographs of it. One of the photographs will hopefully be used in the 2009 North American Motoring calendar.

I had a very long weekend, many kilometers of driving, but very fun at the same time. Sunday I drove to Lethbridge to photograph a golf tournament. On my way there it was raining so I wasn't very excited, but during the tournament the weather was perfect. The golf course was very beautiful and I had a great time.

Saturday some of my friends and I went on a photo trip. We left our house just before 7 am and caught the sunrise while we were driving. The plan was to drive through Banff and to go see a classics car show in Radium Hot Springs, stopping on our way and taking photographs.

The car show was very big with many interesting cars. The weather was very hot and we got very tired very fast so we stopped at Radium Hot Springs for a little swim in the pool.

We stayed a little longer than we were planning at Radium Hot Springs, so we had to drive fast so we could take some photographs of the Takakkaw water falls. We made it to the waterfalls but it was very dark already and I only took couple of photos of it. We stopped for a great supper at a Greek restaurant in Banff and headed home.

Yesterday Tracy and I spent a very nice time with our good friends Alex and his wife Mila. They live very close to this beautiful lake, so we did a little bit of fishing in the evening. We didn't catch anything this time, although I did pull one fish out but it got away when we tried to put it in the net. It wasn't a very successful fishing trip, but we had lots of fun and I for sure would do it again, hopefully sometime soon.

Here are a couple of photographs from our little gathering yesterday evening. We had lots of fun and thank you everyone who came out!

Yesterday Tracy and I went out for some Chinese food with couple of our friends. After dinner we decided to play some Wii games. Here are Rob and Jennifer playing Wii Boxing at our house.

My Mini is officially modified :) I'm trying to keep it as original as possible but I just got these little Union Jack valve caps. Oh, the little things that make us happy :)

This evening my friend Greg, Tracy, and I went to see some fireworks at the GlobalFest. GlobalFest fireworks competition is by far my favorite fireworks to see. We had some very nice food and enjoyed the show! If you have never been to GlobalFest Fireworks, I strongly recommend it!

Today I spent all day photographing. I took some photographs for AirdrieLIFE magazine and in the evening I took some car photographs for the local Mini Club at Show and Shine car show. This was also the fist time my little car was in the show :)

Look mom, I'm eating healthy :) I took this photo of "the fruits of our labor" with my iPhone, the camera on that thing is not that bad actually and I rarely carry my little camera with me anymore. We planted a couple of raspberry plants in our back yard and we had quite a few raspberries this year.

I just came back from the "Mini in the Mountains" road trip. I took my new car for a drive with a local "Mini Club of Calgary". We drove through the mountains to Kananaskis Village for lunch and it was a great drive! I enjoyed spending some time with people who share the same interest in cars as I do.