Final Farwell

Last Thursday Dad, Davina and Katie picked me up from work for the drive to the airport where we dropped off katie, kicked her to the curb and said good luck in England! ....Well that is not exactly how it went down, but close? Not really. I dared Katie to try to handle all her bags on the walk in to the airport- 2 rolling duffle bags, a back pack and a sholder bag.... let's just say I didn't follow up on that dare, and when she got to the London Airport where she really did have to lugg all her bags she wasn't a happy camper....at least she wasn't thinking about it all the way there! Anyway we a really nice farewell free of tears and full of excitement, at least on my part! I wish I could have traded places with her at that minute and I think she wished the same thing! hahaha! Here as our "photo session" from that last hour together in the states- now she is a regular English girl, flat and all!

Going....Going.... Gone....

1+1+1 Does NOT Equal TWO!

Well, it must be said that we got off to a really rocky start for our vacation ala Resorte De Borsodi~~

First Katie and Aaron were 40 minutes late picking me up from work so that we could catch our flight.... I am not even going to get into WHY that happened... Then we practically ran through the ariport....but made our flight with 15 minutes to spare. We had GOOD, yes Good layover in Pheonix but were greated with only TWO bags when we got to El Paso....we checked three... and guess who's bag was missing? MINE! OF COURSE!!! So needless to say, Wednesay evening was anything less than ideal for the start of what should be a great and relaxing vacation.

Thursday morning we got up, expecting that my bag would arrive around 1 in the after noon. We played some great tennis, and then mid way through our "match" I got a call

"Mrs. D- We have yet to locate your baggage, but are doing our best and will notify you when we have found it."

To which I replied:

"You told me last night that you knew where it was and that it would be on the first flight out from Pheonix this morning! What do you mean 'you don't know where it is'?!!

We exchanged a few more words which consisted of me going out and buying some items that they would reimburse me for, etc. So we finished up our tennis match, went home, went swimming, and then headed out to the Mall to pick up some stuff for me. On our way to the mall we get a call from Emery- The airline just called and my bag should be at the house in 30 minutes~! THANK GOD! Not that I was not looking forward to shopping, but it was just a releif to know that I had all my own clothes and that I wouldn't have to go comando any more! hahaha~!

We did pick up a few things at the mall, including a super cute one piece bathing suit~! Woo hoo!

A happy end to the last two days....THANK GOD~!~~

P.S. We just got back from dinner at Chope's- a sizth generation restaurant that was converted from an old house! It was AMAZING mexican food and super Margarita's- 18.00 for a pitcher that was good for 5+ people! YUM!

Canada- Revisited...

Sorry about the week delay in getting these last three days up. We got busy with the "real world". Here's a summery of the last Three Days in The Okanagan (DRINK!)

DAY 7- THE WINERIES!

So they tell us that The Okanagan (DRINK!) is like the Napa Valley of BC....hmmm well, it's not quite that, but it was still good....they actually might one up us on the view, no not actually, they really do!

We went to three wineries, each progressively better. When we got to the last (Mission Hills- where most of these views are from) Sara looked at Aaron and I an said "I am glad we did them in the order we did, otherwise this would have SUCKED!" Yep- She was right. After words Aaron, Wilf, Matt and I hit up a local brewery called Freddies. I was the DD for these gentlemen, regardless the four of us had a nice time and I got carded...guess I look younger than 19! WHAT!??

DAY 8- Our last full day in The Okanagan (DRINK!)

This morning Aaron and I started watch The Sentinel. Once Sara got her sorry butt out of bed, we played Makeup! LOL! I brought some of my Mary Kay samples up there so that I could do a "demo" with her and write off the trip (woo hoo!). We had such a fun time just going through the motions, and it was good practice for me! I loaded her up with goodies too! I think she was pretty stoked.

After lunch we took off to the Value Village looking for Aaron Moose shirt- and we were successful! Actually 5 shirts deep successful! I will post a picture of that later. Sara scored on some awesome kids books, and I got away scott free...

Thant night we dropped Bells off at the grandparents and took a drive up the MTN. and a nice hike along some summer laden (ok it was still cold 11c) ski slopes! What a Blast! I think we captured our Christmas card picture there too!

DAY 9- The Ending...

All good things must come to an end. Today we had a great breakfast with Crew at The Polson Diner (we like to call it the Poisin Diner) puzt around a bit and then headed for the Airport....this time we did NOT run through the Vancouver airport; We sat for 3.5 hours! What a stinkin long layover! We had some beer, bought some time on a Internet Kiosk (which still has 39 minutes left on it, if we ever get back there...and I remember the password) and puzt around some more, and some more, and then finally hit the tarmak and got our butts home....whew. We walked in the door at 11:00 pm- and crashed into bed!

Definitely a great trip. Thanks Sara and Matt and Isabella for housing us and showing us a good time in The Okanagan (now DRINK!) Heh hhh!