We're home again after a week and a bit off in the west. We'll put pictures up soon, but right now it's time for some lunch.
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Westering, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
We went away last week, on the train to Edmonton. Here's some of the stuff we did:
Celebrated K's birthday
Visited some friends
…and their menagerie (one dog, three cats, a great huge tortoise, a bunch of turtles, and some hermit crabs)
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Friday, March 16, 2007
Previous entries: Part 1, Part 2.
We got back to Edmonton and dropped the car off. Over half the deposit I'd put on it got refunded, since we didn't keep the car the full week. That was pleasant.
My memory grows hazy of what we did—I know there was much playing with little Miss [...]
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Calgary
We arrived in Calgary about suppertime, and found S & J's house without too much difficulty. They live in a relatively new part of town, and there are a lot (a lot) of streets in the area that start with "Valley".
Both of them had taken Monday off, and so we would have two full [...]
Westering (1)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Sometime before Christmas, my darling wife went online, to the VIA Rail website. She punched in some dates, a starting point and a destination, and said "Show me the monkey!"* Then she said, "Holy crap, it's cheaper to take the train to Edmonton than it is to fly! Even on Westjet!"
So she [...]
Westering: prologue
Monday, January 29, 2007
Last week we were in the West. Alberta, to be precise. We boarded a train on Friday evening, and were in Edmonton Saturday morning. We rented a car, drove south to Calgary, and spent a few days visiting with my sister and her hubby. Tuesday we drove back up to Edmonton, [...]