Karlee Sue-shi

We took the Packer's to the West Ed Mall today, to look around,

eat some food and check out the amusement and water park.

Of all the choices in the food court, Karlee chose sushi, eeww!

She was pretty excited.  She's showing her more sophisticated side.

Capital X and The Packer's

We just got through with transfer, incoming, outgoing, cooking, 

doing dishes, meetings, and I am ready for a break.  

A baby girl and friends from Utah break.

The Packer's are coming and they're bringing Courtney with them.

Yeah!!!!!

They've made their way up through Glacier and they should be 

here by tonight. (thursday)  I had a crock pot full of chicken,
beans and corn with tortillas.  I thought they might be hungry.

I had the entire visit planned, I am so excited.
Tomorrow, after a crepe breakfast, we will head to Capital X.

I've already bought tickets, I hope they want to go.

We went to Capital X with Courtney the first year we were up here,
we missed it last year and thought it would be the perfect place
to take the Packer's and Courtney, there is a lot to see and do.

A whole park load of things to see and do.

We walked through all the displays first,

see the cute Packer family in front of the teepee.

Courtney's trying her hand at surfing, on a wave of records.

There was a huge mobile of guitars and gold records,

Chris like all the awesome guitars.

Kaitlin and Courtney took a stroll on Abbey Road,

sooooo cute.

Then we stumbled on this huge tribute to KISS, one of Chris'

favorite bands.

These were 18 inch dolls of the singers,

this is Peter Criss

and this is Gene Simmons.

And these are two scary girls (make it three) peeking through the glass.

The great bison and Kaitlin and Courtney

And just the great bison.

The entire conference hall was filled with Canadian heritage.

From handcarts,

to wild animals,

Ukrainian festive costumes

to the oriental influence.

Big Panda

After we had walked through everything and bored the girls silly,

Chris gave them some money to buy a few tickets and ride a 

few wild rides.

In the mean time, I hung out with my good friends, candied apples
and fancy caramel apples.

We watched a really cool high diving show, they were literally diving
 into a small pool of water from way, way up there, like 30 feet up.

Sorry, I filmed it this way so I could get the whole picture in.

Then we hung out at the all the wonderful, delicious, food carts.

First up, chicken tenders, the BIG ones,

homemade root beer,

fancy fries, curly, spiral and fresh cut.

Then there were these awesome looking funnel cakes, with

soft serve ice cream on top with toppings.

I almost caved for one of those, and then I saw. . . .

fried oreo cookies, 

now that I have to try.

I made Wendy hold them so I could take a picture.

And that's as close as she came to them, no closer.

They were ok, not all they're talked up to be, I wouldn't get 

them again, I'd try something else next time.

Or I'll try deep fat frying something of my own, candy bars, maybe.

Good old poutine, only in Canada, la poutinerie.

We met back up with the girls and caught a special show in the 

conference center, it was all done with aluminum hoses, like

clothes dryer vents.  But really big ones.

There was so much to see today, when we came out of the aluminum

show we ran into this "Beatles" group.  We just caught the last two songs.

We would have loved to have watched the whole show.  It looked fun.

The girls really got into it.  If we had caught the entire show I would have

encouraged the girls to go up front and be groupies.  Next time.

What a wonderful day.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

We had a very busy week, but at the end of the week we had a very nice 

surprise.  We had a call from Brian, Alex and Eric.

Or should I say, Elder Grant, Elder Lundberg and Elder Hale.

They are in town and called to say "hello", so we met them

 at Five Guys for lunch.

Oh, it was so good to see them and catch up.  They all looked

so great and they are moving on with their lives.

Some of our best missionaries.

Elder Eric Hale!

Elder Brian Grant!

Elder Alex Lundberg!

Thanks for taking the time to stop and say hi, we really miss you guys!

Once our missionaries, now our friends, forever!

Sweet!

Goin' Home

So let me give you a little background on this particular group

that's going home.  This is "our" group, the first group of missionaries

that we welcomed and brought into the mission.  Our very own group.

The temple is closed for cleaning, so we weren't able to go through

a session with our departing missionaries.  So instead, we had lunch,

President did interviews, I had the gang do my going home regiment

and we visited and played win, lose or draw.

Then for dinner, we had these.  Grilled burgers with the works.

Everything you could possibly think to put on a burger.

Mushrooms, pineapple slices, pickles, bacon, tomatoes, onion.

Silly Missionaries!

I love transfer day and the crazy stories that it brings.

The outgoing elders and sisters put all their luggage into the trailer,

so it can be carried to the mission home for the "final" night.

Packed up and ready to go.  Back to your areas, elders.

Elder, what a mess!

Ok, explain this one, cowboy boots, spiderman and a rice hat?

laundry baskets, boom boxes, pillows, food, BOOM BOX?