Road trip pictures part 2

More of that trip... Here we are hiking near Canmore. The boys threaten to tickle, and even a large dragonfly lands on the front of her T-shirt!

In Calgary we were pleasantly surprised with our hotel value- we got this one because it was right next to where the meeting in Calgary was, and the room was nice! we slept so well, and the kids made good use of the waterslides! I wish so much that I had taken pictures of the loved ones in Calgary, but we were having so much fun visiting for an hour after the meeting, I confess I completely forgot to use my camera!

That trip across the prairie dragged out... we listened to many many hours of world history on CD: We went from the Tokugawa Dynasties in Japan through the forty-niners in California. The kids did really well on that stretch: listening to history, playing together, quietly singing, looking at passing trucks or trains... I think it was the adults in the car that were struggling with impatience at the similarity of one hour to the next... We were so glad to see the sight of the city of Regina!

Our first evening at Regina we spent at the Bible study at the Brown's house. The kids made friends quickly. And in the morning we took a short breakfast at McDonald's with the Clark's who stayed across the hall from us in the dorms at the university then we went on together to tour a tabernacle display that was set up by the airport. We did not make an official visit: they were not open, but the man watching over the display let us make our own tour, which led by Marc and Uncle Vern went pretty well, I'd say! We were awed by the size of the brazen altar, and I was surprised that the laver was so small by comparison: I think I'd had the grandeur and dimensions of the laver of Solomon's temple stuck in my head. Overall it really helped get an idea of how things seemed in the original tabernacle. We popped in through the back to see the representation of the holy of holies, and were careful to explain to the kids that in the real thing this would have been really bad to do. Even as it was, it gives you a funny feeling, knowing that under the Mosaic Law one would have been struck dead for crawling in the back. Then we went to the picnic!! The conference was officially begun! The kids met some really great friends. Also, Hoon afforded Lukey the pleasure of being accidentally plastered with mustard without it being his own fault. Yay, Lukey. Hoon apologized about fourteen times, but Lukey was so happy with being messy and not bearing the blame that you could not help but be happy for him. I am not sure if Hoon knows him well enough to see it from that point of view, but we did whatever we could to let him know he was completely forgiven!

The Giant Slide at Evraz Park looks like generations of children have profited from its ripply incline. Ours certainly did. And the excitement of sitting by friends in meeting! I once looked on the other side of Marc just as a meeting was about to start, and I saw four little girls! I was afraid he was going to be kept really busy, but they were good.

More coming soon...