Calgary Week-end

Last week we continued unpacking etc. The plumber came and fixed the toilet.  There were several conversations with Telus in regard to our phone (the last one assuring us that the phone would be hooked up Friday.  The internet got upgraded and is working really well.  We attended an RBC lecture about fixed income investments on Tuesday at the newly renovated Sportsplex (now called the Enmax Center)  and I went to Club on Thursday and had a visit with old friends.  Friday morning we got up to get ready to head off to Calgary and found that our hot water tank had burst and the water was running on the basement floor.  After the plumber came with a new tank and got it installed we made a late start for Calgary.  Our phone was not yet hooked up.  Although the roads in town were a mess the highway was clear.

We went out for supper at Mucho Burrito with Edward, Jeremy and Nathan and their families.

Saturday evening we attended the Youth Cultural Celebration connected with the dedication of the Calgary Temple.  Six of our grandchildren performed, although it was hard to pick them out among the large number of participants.  We ran into our niece, April,   who was ushering and met one of Bob's university room-mates.

Sunday morning we watched a broadcast of the Temple Dedication at the Willow Park Stake Center.  Miranda stayed with us in the afternoon while Edward and family went to attend the last session of the Temple Dedication.

Monday morning we returned home - still no phone.

Tuesday my sister, Joan, came by for a very welcome visit.

Today there was one more conversation with Telus and our phone with our previous number was hooked up within minutes - yea!  I think they sent out a memo to all the phone solicitors.  Within the hour we got a call from Mastercard and one from Sears and they knew my name!  Did we really want a phone?

Nova Scotia Sounds Good

I think I'll go out to Alberta; weathers good there in the fall?

We arrived home on Friday evening.  Darryl, Langley & Carter visited us on Saturday after lunch and later our neighbours, the Hergets brought a treat over and in the evening Sue-anne and Taylor stopped in on their way back from a track meet in Red Deer.

At church on Sunday one of the speakers didn't show so guess who got called up?  Yes, it was Bob and I.  There are a few members of the ward we know, but a lot has changed.  

We went out to Taber to Sue-anne's for Sunday dinner.  One of our granddaughters who is going to college in Lethbridge was also there.  It was certainly good to see them all.

Yesterday we cleaned up the leaves that had drifted into our driveway.  It was cold out.  The snow began at supper time and went on into the night.  The school buses in Lethbridge are not running and our grandchildren in Taber get a snow day.  We hear it was 17 degrees C in Dartmouth yesterday.

We have been busy unpacking and finding out what we left behind (many things that we didn't remember that we had) and trying to decide where we will put things. Bob hauled 70 kilograms of old computer and photocopying equipment out to the recycling place.

Our phone was supposed to be hooked up by now (we are getting our old number back we hope) but it is not yet working.  We have no TV as yet.  Our daughter discovered that the downstairs toilet started leaking the week before we came home and the plumber who was supposed to arrive the beginning of the week hasn't made it yet.  So it is good to be home!

Home in Lethbridge

We arrived home this afternoon about 2:30 p.m.

Beautiful Day - Boring Drive

We left Lehi, Utah about 9:30 this morning and making a 15 minute detour into Salt Lake to pick up some fabric swatches for Sue-anne and an hour detour to Ammon, Idaho so we could eat at Cafe Rio we are now settled into the Hampton Inn in Butte, Montana.

One more day!

Lehi, Utah

Monday we went to Cornbellies for the afternoon.  Many activities were going on there.  Tuesday was a day for shopping.  Today Bob and Owen went to the park.  Later we went to Wheeler Farms for a microsoft family party.  We had a wagon ride through the farm,  were entertained by Hired Guns and ate.  We leave Utah in the morning.

 I Remember when my Dad sold Minneapolis Moline Tractors

The FrontRunner is coming to Lehi in the near future.  It will travel between Ogden and Provo.

BYU Football

Bob, Darwin, Caden, Chloe & Owen went to the football game this afternoon.  Amber and I went shopping.

Walt and Marilyn Johnson (friends from China) came over after the football game and we had a good visit.

Lehi, Utah