Hard to Believe

Friday was my 75th birthday.  I can't believe it.

A large group of our family got together on Saturday to celebrate the big event.

The adults along with Langley and Mickey met at the Calgary Temple.

After the temple we went to Chilis to dinner.

A Good Looking Group

What a Difference a Week Makes

On September 10th we posted pictures of Henderson Lake.  Here is Henderson Lake a week later.

Murray Brothers and Sisters in Hanna

The rain had stopped.  We left Lethbridge on Thursday and stopped in Taber and had lunch with Sue-anne.  On we went to Hanna where we visited Ross for a while.  Later Paulette, Joan, Earl, Donald and Diane arrived and Joan served us supper.  It was good to visit as we don't get together often.

Bob and I stayed overnight with Ross and Paulette and after breakfast we left Hanna to get home in time for Bob's 1:30 appointment.  The old Honda only had one flat tire - just before we got to Tempest.  Bob is still useful to have around as he got the spare on the car in record time.  Here we are back in Lethbridge.  It is gradually warming up and we expect normal temperatures by Monday.

Still Summer?

Last week we had lovely warm, sunny weather.  Monday was the Labour Day holiday, but we stayed home and started to catch up from our long vacation.  On Thursday we went to the Temple with Sue-anne.

The beautiful weather ended on Monday and it has been cold and wet ever since.  We didn't have the snow that Calgary had - just a few flakes in the air.  Our tomatoes have been covered since Monday.

Monday we went to Rita Brooks funeral.  Tuesday Joan and Dom dropped in. Today Bob went walking around Henderson Lake and took some great photos in the mist.

Good Feeling

 Yesterday Bob got an e-mail from a student he taught in China - just the kind of note you like to receive.

Dear Professor Baines,
I’m WANG Yue, a student you’ve taught in 2009 at Nanjing University. I’m writing this letter to express my thanks to you for having taught me a lot during your wonderful Commercial Law Course.
Thanks for a programme set up by the Department of Justice of Hong Kong, I’m now studying at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a postgraduate student in LLM in Common Law. I’ve just came back from my first class of this term. I’m very glad to tell you that I think I’ve done well in this first class: I can understand what the professor is talking about, I can follow the professor’s thinking and I can  answer his question. All the courses here are taught in English, and the common law study is a wholly new experience compared to my study in Nanjing University — except for your Commercial Law Course. I can not handle this without your wonderful teaching. It is in your class that I’ve had my first contact with case studying which I think is the core spirit of the common law study.
Thank you very much! It is probably that after so many years, you have forget that commercial law course ( or maybe you’ll still remember it simply because the students in that course were too lazy to read all the cases). But I still want to send this sincere thanks to you.
Best regards,
Wang Yue

Wang Yue - front row left

Go Go Go

We got home from our vacation in the U.K. last Saturday about 5:00 p.m. 

Monday we had a good-bye supper for Courtney as we wouldn't see her again before she left to go back to Edmonton.

Tuesday was a beautiful day for a drive over the "Going to the Sun" highway.  Unfortunately the road was torn up nearly to the summit and with the construction and slow traffic it took two hours to navigate Logan Pass.  We finally arrived at  Echo Lake where Edward had rented a cabin.  It was a family type cabin with at least 7 bedrooms and bunkhouse rooms which had at least 4 queen size beds and many single beds.  The cabin had everything except a dishwasher.  It even had a theatre.  There were all the toys you could imagine - kayaks, paddle boards, a paddle boat, aqua rug.  The weather was great.

It doesn't look that big from the outside.

Deck

The weather was great and time passed swiftly.  Friday we returned by way of Del Bonita and it was an hour quicker than the Tuesday trip.  No lineup at the border, but they stopped us on the American side as well as the Canadian side.

We had planned to go up to Calgary for the Highland Games today, but decided to stay home instead.

Chorley

On Thursday after we left the Temple at Lingfield we drove to Chorley where the Preston temple if located.  We stayed at the Premier Inn.  The property had originally been a farm and some of the buildings were new and some were renovated (such as the stables that were turned into rooms).

The temple was six minutes away from the hotel.  Orson was well and we all attended the temple this morning (Friday).

 

 

We were out of the temple on on the road by 11:00 a.m.  It was a much easier drive than yesterday because the traffic wasn't as heavy as it had been around the big cities.  We are now settled in the Airport Holiday Inn.  Nathan and boys have gone to return the rental and to spend the U.K money they have left.  We leave to return home tomorrow morning - early.  Our time has passed quickly.

Border between England and Scotland