News Update

Another week has passed, and we have returned to the shore of Lake Wascana. We drove down to Nanaimo Sunday morning, caught the 12:30 ferry and drove up to the five-star Howard Johnson's at North Bend—thanks How and Di for a nice visit, great rest, and fine food! On Monday, we continued through the mountains and stopped for the night in Banff. We hoped to get Kristian a trip up the Sulphur Mountain Gondola on Tuesday morning, but the ride was down for maintenance, so we packed up and completed the trip to Regina. On Wednesday afternoon, I stopped in at First Student to see when I might have some bus driving, and they asked me to start the next morning! So, I'm back at the bus driving game! Investments have been tricky this week as we seem to be back in the headline watching game, and we're looking for a Goldilocks' story. First it was data being too good, so investors feared removal of stimulus, but finally on Friday the jobs data was just the right amount of poor, so investors were encouraged that stimulus would continue and got back into buying mode. All told, I had a great week and am back on target toward my monthly quota. Curling is back on the agenda with the Skins game in Banff where my old favourite Kevin Martin is into the final tomorrow, and the Sask Women's championship in Tisdale. American football continues in their playoffs; one story ended for me as Aaron Rodgers and the Packers lost last weekend. The other continues with my big game tomorrow afternoon in Denver. This morning, we enjoyed a visit with Marti, and then she accompanied us over to Moose Jaw. We got in a short visit with Elvin & Grace, enjoyed a fine meal, and perused a small sub-section of the photo albums they've assembled. Thanks a lot cousins! Tonight we had music practice with Dave, Heather and crew.

It was hard to drive east on Sunday after enjoying our week with Eric/A and the boys. Thanks guys. Now they're all back to school and work, although Liam was under the weather and missed the restart of school. 

We enjoyed having Kristian travelling with us while Erin continued with work in Regina. Now, he's back in classes, but at least we get to see them often.

Trav & Joanna are with his hockey team in Minneapolis this weekend. We hope they're having a safe trip and a good time at the tournament. 

And that's about enough for this week.