Another road trip...this time down to Calgary to tour the Calgary Temple. We had invited our dear friends, Ron and Eileen Hallett to go with us, and it was a good time for us to celebrate their birthdays! On the drive down to Calgary Thursday evening we had balloons, birthday plates and napkins, even fun favors and a picnic! I'm not sure Ron was as enthused and happy to celebrate his birthday as I was, but we had fun! We had booked a hotel near Canmore and planned to stay until Saturday. We enjoyed our time together, and spent a lot of time visiting and just relaxing. It is so beautiful there in the mountains!
Friday morning we were booked for the Temple Tour at 11:30 and we met up there with Jon and Tiff and Ava and Josh. It was so amazing to see the Temple, it is so beautiful, inside and out! It was exciting for us to show Ron the temple, he is not a member and really seemed to enjoy the visit. The spirit of the Temple was very special, I am so grateful to have another Temple in Alberta!
After our visit to the Temple, we drove back to Airdrie, to Jon and Tiff's place. On the way we stopped at Cross Iron Mall and gave Ron a quick tour of the Bass Pro Shop Store there. He is an avid outdoorsman, and he and Doug thoroughly enjoyed all the cool stuff there. Of course they had to try out their skills at the shooting gallery!!
When we arrived at Jon's, Mark was there waiting for us. He had to teach school until 3:00, so he couldn't join us for the Temple tour and lunch. We had promised him that we would bring him some lunch from our visit to 'Smash Burger' after the Temple (they do have great burgers)! It was good to see him again. Ava had fun playing with 'Uncle Mark' and 'Grandpa Ron'. It was so cute to watch them play together!!
We left Airdrie, and headed back to Canmore late afternoon. We had planned to take Ron and Eileen out for their birthday dinner at the Stoney Nakota Lodge, where they offer a Steak and Lobster Buffet. It was delicious and we were so full when we left that we were moving pretty slow! However, it looks like Eileen shrank a bit during the meal!
We returned home from our trip on Saturday and Lindsay and James and his two brother's Jeremiah and Sam were there. They had spent the afternoon out at the cabin taking out the boat dock for us. It snowed Saturday morning, so it was a pretty cold job! We really appreciated the time and effort they took to help us with getting that out before it gets any colder!
That evening we attended the adult session of our Stake Conference. Our new Stake Presidency have been in just over a year, and we are blessed to be guided by them! The meeting was very uplifting! Sunday was our Stake Conference so I took Doug's mom, Helen. We enjoyed going together and took good notes for Doug.
Doug and Lindsay had signed up several months ago to help at the annual 'Homeless Connect' project that runs twice yearly in Edmonton. Doug donates time doing Dentistry and Lindsay doing hygiene patients all day! They really love it, and have done it for several years now. Many different businesses donate supplies time or skills to help out low income and homeless people in Edmonton.
Tonight we had a Phillipino family in our home to celebrate their son, Myron's birthday. Myron has been in Doug's teacher's Quorum this past 2 years. It was fun to have them here and to get to know them better, they are a very humble, sweet family. They have only lived in Canada for a few years and came here from Manila. A lot of immigrants struggle to make a life here, even in the church!
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