Home Again!

Another week has passed and we have finally managed to get home! We left Regina on Wednesday,

Kristian & Grandma vs T-Rex!

spent Wednesday and Thursday nights in Winnipeg, and drove the final leg to Thunder Bay on Friday. However, the week was more eventful than the brief write-up makes it seem. The Baileys arrived in town on Tuesday in anticipation of their departure for Estonia on Wednesday morning, so we migrated over to Dad's place where Bern, Alicia and Logan put us up for the night. Thanks! Meanwhile Erin was hosting the Baileys. We joined them at the airport on Wednesday morning as they began their trip to Europe. The meeting was brief, but we were able to send them on their way with our best wishes. The parking fee at the Regina airport was a shocker—eight dollars! Yikes! Then we packed up Kristian and headed east for a lovely stay with Tom & Mariette in Winnipeg. Board and room were generous, but Tom was not so kind on the course, as he took it to me at Teulon Golf Course on Thursday! Kristian and Wendy enjoyed a nice tour with Mariette through the new dinosaur exhibit at Assiniboine Park Zoo. Thanks for the nice stay in Winnipeg. Today, we have been surveying our next projects around home. Wendy did some shopping and I did some weeding. The rhubarb needs picking and the potatoes are doing well, but that's the limit of my garden this year. The markets were very helpful this week, and I am already at quota for the month of July, so I can attempt to make up for the lack in May! MLB has been in all-star break, but the Jays have returned to action again, but are failing to return to action in winning mode! Let's go Jays! The Riders played BC tonight and continued to struggle, even more so after Darian Durant fell to injury in the first half. There were encouraging signs for sure. Still, it's disappointing to see them falling to 0-3 in this rebuilding season. Let's go Riders! 

As mentioned, the Baileys have flown to Estonia and have taken up residence in Tartu for the next few weeks. Eric & Erica will provide some of the supervision and leadership with the group. 

Erin is home alone after we took Kristian with us to Thunder Bay. Now, she'll have no one to mess up the house, so she'll have a wonderful time with summer house cleaning!! 

Trav & Joanna had big news this week as their bid for a house has been accepted. There remains work to do on the conditions, but we'll be watching that with them in the coming weeks. Otherwise, our house and yard are looking pretty good, so thanks for taking care of things while we were gone! They have been very busy with their usual work, and this week took on a special project—coordinating and photographing Matt Murray's day with the Stanley Cup! That is set to take place on Tuesday; we are all looking forward to that! 

And that's about enough for this week.