First Visitor of 2009

My sister Carolyn came over at the end of June to stay with me for a week before going on to the Rockies, Vancouver and Seattle, with her boyfriend Alun (who drove over from Seattle and met us in the mountains). It was great to see her, not least because she came bearing gifts of Walkers cheese and onion crisps and Cadburys double deckers. It also gave me the chance to take the week off work and do loads of lovely stuff around Edmonton and St Albert, followed by a weekend in the mountains. Here's a bit of what we got up to...

Tum te Tum....taps fingers on tabletop

Just waiting for Jacqui to post the pics from the rugby to the site, she needs encouragement sometimes.......poking with a sharp stick at others.

To tide you over:

Rugby=good
Friends coming over=good
Jacqui's ability to organise a trip to see Shakespeare in the park=poor-awful

Coming up next Jacqui has another attempt to go see Mr S in the park, and I'm off to see MMA (mixed martial arts) round John's.

Addendum

Lo and behold we have even more stuff on! After man's rugby on Saturday we have friends coming over and I even had the option of watching some man's fisty cuffs too.

Fisty cuffs will have to wait until Sunday when I'm wandering over to John's to watched the edited highlights on his slightly larger but still inferior TV :)

Social Things and Stuff

This weekend we are off to support our adopted country in the mans game of rugby. They are facing the evil that is the US of A in high competition for a spot in the Rugby World Cup 2011. This should be fun.

Weekend after we're going to the horses and a meal and then the week after we're watching Everton v River Plate at the Commonwealth stadium. We are suddenly busy, go us! In there somewhere we have Jacqui's friend Ann over with Gordon and there will no doubt be more mountain related fun. I shall write again when the moons are advantageous.

Weekend Trip and O Canada

This weekend we're off to the mountains with ex-Braby Jacqueline and ex-Braby in waiting Carolyn. There we shall meet the valiant explorer Alan and there will be much rejoicing.

We're quite looking forward to it, it's been a while and it will be good to get away and see the natural history.

Lastly, we are all recovering from late night fireyworks, on Canada day (July 1st) all the cities do something involving gunpowder for the populace to enjoy. BUT!!! .... drama ... not really.. due to our position on the earth it get's dark very late here so the fireworks began at 11:ish and obviously finished later than that. They were impressive in St. Albert where I was stationed and Edmonton where the girls were out gallavanting having failed to see William Shakespeare.

Well pip pip and toodles.

Peoples in My House!

This week we are honoured to welcome Carolyn of Braby to our humble abode. The delightful young lady wandered over to see us last Friday and proceeded to scoff at jet lag and laugh at tiredness. Actually young Jacqui looks more tired!

Today J&C are out shopping and taking the tram around Edmonton, and then tonight they're off to watch what we call a 'Bird Film' which I shall NOT attend.
Tomorrow is another stat day (bank holiday) for us and we'll be out gallavanting around the countryside somewhere, probably Elk Island.

All is well with us, even my evil experimentation continues apace.

Bloody, yes i said bloody Canadians

Chronological order is something that happens in other blogs, I do not subscribe to such outdated principles.

Last week we got a letter from the Canadian immigration people, interesting I thought. Inside is a standard letter saying that Jacqui needed to have further tests completed and an ominous sealed envelope for our doctor. So I call Jacqui and our world pretty much comes crashing down as we both immediately fear the worst.

The next day Jacqui calls the doctor on spec and manages to get an appointment for that day. Either that or wait a week, and neither of us want that. Unfortunately I can't make it out to go with her then so she spends a happy couple of hours going home to get passport, getting more pictures taken and getting back to Edmonton.

Jacqui gets to the doctors and hands over the sealed envelope, and she gets told that it's just that someone in the Canadian health service lost/broke her x-ray pictures and she needed to get some more done. We both felt such a mixture of relief and anger at the senseless letter, luckily the relief won out! And now we just wait for the immigration people at the embassy in LA to make a decision on our application, they better decide soon we're running our of patience.