Scrabble and Golf

Not everyone would know that these two things are very complementary -- especially when we are talking about the card game of Golf!!

Tonight we played Scrabble and Golf -- me, Patty, and my folks, that is! But let me back up and recap this week with my folks.

Firstly, they were not able to come in on Saturday night as planned (flight delays in Detroit due to flooding. So, they arrived at about 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. This, after further delays in Chicago due to steering problems on the plane. As they were unpacking their luggage from the trunk of their rental car, they realized they had left some luggage on the conveyer belt at the airport. We called the airport, but they would not let us know if it was there or anything like that -- they insisted we must come to the airport. We decided to pick it up the following day on the way to the mountains.

In the meantime, we had a barbeque to get to on Sunday evening. My pastor and his wife -- Bob and Joce Jones, and some of my bible study group --Tim and Kathy Fowler, Cliff and Harriett Hastman, Steve Hertzog, Carla Hillestad, Jim and Joanne Lantz, Jim and Suzanne Stoddart, all convened at Randy and Arlene James' house for a great chicken barbeque dinner including . . . well, you guessed it -- barbequed chicken, many salads, a delightful rhubarb crisp, coffee and all accoutrements. The fellowship was phenomenal, my parents were welcomed to Edmonton, and I believe a good time was had by all.

We took off for the mountains the following morning, but first our stop at the airport for the left luggage. That took quite some time, but we finally headed south to Banff (we stayed in Canmore actually). After a good night's rest, we drove from Banff to Jasper, stopping at Lake Louise for pics and at Athabasca Falls for a hike and some pics. Our first stop was at Lake Louise, where we realized that Dad had left his glasses and jacket in Canmore, so we had to go back and retrieve those, but it was no big deal at all -- what better place to spend some extra time driving around???

So, then it was on to Athabasca -- just before we reached Athabasca Falls, I saw the mountain God used to call me. Somewhere around Wabosso (I think) or something like that.

Then we drove through Jasper and ended up at Pocahontas Cabins at about 8:30 p.m. Ate dinner and retired for a game of Scrabble about 10:00 p.m. It was a very, very restful night -- all that mountain air, you know! The next morning we got up, drove in to Jasper, had breakfast at a little cafe (it was a FABULOUS breakfast by the way) by the Shell station on the west side of town. Their cinnamon buns are out of this world for sure! Check them out.

So, we drove back to Edmonton and arrived about 3:00 or so. I went to Bible Study, my folks did some toodling about. We met up with some more people at the Oliver Square Tim Hortons -- met Wayne Graham, Rick and Laurie Harrison, Ron and Charlene Korzan, Rod and Brenda Peake, in addition to others they had already met on Sunday night. (By this time, little did they know, they met most of the Board of the church.)

Today, after catching breakfast at Sam's -- a restaurant highly recommended by Erica -- they went to Fort Edmonton for the day, then I cooked them a dinner of chicken, potatoes w/onion soup, brussell sprouts and cottage cheese.

Then, Patty Hertzog came over and played Scrabble and Golf with us. We had a fabulous evening of games, comparing weather notes, catching up, and just general fun.

So far, so good . . .