Canada 2008

We're back! Our summer vacation was a hoot this year. A week just isn't long enough...On July 3rd we rented a mini van and after 2 months of hearing "how many more days until we go to Canada?" the day finally arrived:) The first day was mostly driving with lots of goodie stops along the way. We stayed in a motel in Dillon Montana the first night. We arrived in Canada around 3pm the next day. Kim's parents were very excited to see us and the grandkids. We spent 4 days with them. We took them with us into Lethbridge, Alberta 2 of the days,which is about an hour drive from their farm. They are getting older so it's hard for them to be drug around all day shopping through malls, etc...
One of the days we went to KFC and bought some chicken and fries with gravy and went to a park. That was a ton of fun for the kids feeding the seaguls and fish in the lake. Canada is just beautiful and the people there are so friendly and laid back...We were planning on staying with Kim's folks for a week but after a few days you just run out of things to talk about. The kids had fun taking Grandpa's tractor for a spin, his dog Buck for walks every day, got paid 10 cents for every moth they caught..hee hee, watched the calgary stampede each night on TV with Grandpa & Grandma, listened to lots of Grandpa's stories of back in the day, macked out on Grandma's goodie drawer, etc... I am really thankful that we were able to take the kids to see their Grandparents. On Tuesday morning we headed back with the idea that we would spend a few days in SLC going school shopping, Lagoon and visiting my brother Carl and Kim's sister Tara. The motel we stayed in had a pool and the kids had a blast going swimming. I did a cannon ball off the edge and HELLO...my body just aint what it used to be. I think I twisted my ankle cuz sheeesh it hurt the next day. It was so nice to just spend time with the kids and not worry about dishes, laundry, bills, etc! Lagoon was alot of fun...This is the first time we have gone to a theme park where we were all big enough to ride all the rides...no babies in diapers, pregnant, strollers...etc. Jenna was 1 inch too short to ride the big roller coasters like Wicked, and the collosus but they let her go anyways. Our girls have no fear just like their Daddy...I was the biggest chicken..I really had to work with myself to go on the ride Wicked....they named it appropratley. It was super fun! Thursday we had breakfast with Kim's sister Tara and her daughter Angela at SILS in Layton. That is a great place to eat breakfast...yummm yum. We havn't seen or heard from Tara in 5 years so it was fun to visit with her. The girls had all saved money to go school shopping so Thursday we shopped 'til we dropped literally! Kim was so patient...It's a good thing he likes to shop. We found lots of great deals and,.... for the first time ever (this soon), I think we are all set for school:) YEAH! Around 9:30pm we were finally done shopping at the South Town Mall but we were all so tired we couldn't remember where in the world we parked. It literally took us 45 minutes to find our van. Kim said "are we really that blonde?" hee hee That night we stayed with my brother in Saratoga Springs. the next morning Kim said," so do you girls want to go shopping some more?" Jenna piped up and said NO we will just lose our car again. We had to chuckle. We were all tuckered out from a long week of on the go so we headed home. All in all we made some great memories...I can't wait until next years summer vacation:)