A cloudy and cool day, it even rained on occasions; what a change! We went for a power walk around the park ( I have to bring my sugar and cholesterol levels down) I did some minor chores outside and Val did some weeding. She now has a washer and dryer outside which I finalized the connections (Does it sound like we are growing roots!???). The rest of the day we spent inside as it started raining. For dinner we had shrimp (from Mexico) and deep-fry vegetables.
A sunny but cool day, we spent it washing clothes and the truck, underneath the rig and the sidewalk; going to Scotch Creek for a birthday card and mailed it and filled a tank of propane. Happy hour was at our place with Gail, Donna and Marcel and Ruth and Dennis. I had a call from my brother Johnny who is presently in Thunder Bay and heading for Vancouver. He says he will be there Sunday so we will probably see him at Jeffrey
Cloudy and cold this day was! We went for a couple for walks but other than that, we stayed inside and read. Around 3 pm, Mark, our neighbour behind us, came over with this big machine and ripped some of the cottonwood trees behind us. That really opened up the backyard. We packed up for tomorrow and that’s about it.
We were up and packed by 8:30 am as we have a Gateway meeting at 9:30 am. Almost everyone is here; Mark and Ron and their wife arrived late last night and so did Dan and his wife. We met most of them before the meeting which didn’t begin until 10:20. At 1:30, it was still going strong but we decided to leave as we had a long drive ahead of us. We stopped in Kamloops for a quick bite to eat then headed south. Lots of constructions around Port Mann bridge and the new bridge looks almost ready to be use. Traffic was light, thank goodness! We arrived at Joanne and John at 6 pm and after saying hi to the kids (2 of them) and marvelling as to how much McKinley has grown, we had dinner then visited for the rest of the evening. They had a bed downstairs which is where we spent the night.
We were up at 8 am and the kids at 8:05. Mom and Dad got up around 8:30 am. John cooked breakfast for everyone then we sat around and enjoyed the grand-kids, especially McKinley which is at the age of 18 months and learning all kinds of tricks with her face and hands (I have uploaded a couple pictures of her on our Picasa website). When we got up it was just cloudy but unfortunately after breakfast it started to rain which put a damper on our plans for a walk in the park. I had to walk Tucker regardless and Jenaya decided to come with grand-pa too. We went for a long walk and we got back home, we found out dad had come out looking for us but went in the wrong directions...Oh well! We played a few games with Jenaya, the older sister, and had a fun afternoon. We left around 4:30 pm after saying our goodbyes to all of them. We had to return about 10 minutes later as we had forgotten our clothes hanging in the closet. Back on the road and we drove to Langley to visit with Jeffrey in his new house. Johnny, my youngest brother, had also arrived about an hour earlier so we had a great visit. We went out to the pub which Val and I found VERYYYYYYY expensive; I guess I have lost touch with the cost of living on the Lower Mainland. It rained all day and evening unfortunately (what else is new).
We were all up by 8 am and after a lazy couple hours, Johnny offered to take us all out for breakfast which we didn’t refuse, of course! Tucker feels lost this morning; he was following me around as if he thought we were going to leave him behind. He’s having a hard time with all this moving around, house to house. He was happy when we packed, loaded everything in the truck including him. After saying more goodbyes, we were on the road to Chilliwack where we made a quick stop at Rochelle’s house to drop off Spone collar which we had picked up by mistake, then it was a quick stop to fuel @ $1.29/liter then on the highway to Lee Creek. Hwy 1 was absolutely crazy with traffic going west; bumper to bumper and speeds of 30 to 50 KM/Hr. IT looked like a big parking lot at times. Traffic was heavy all the way to Kamloops where it finally tapered off. We fuelled here at $1.26/liter then arrived home at 5 pm, unpacked and enjoyed being home in our own house/trailer! We had a wonderful week-end and a nice surprise with Johnny. He has moved to BC from Quebec to make a living so let’s hope it works out for him. Jeffrey will help him get started.
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