Weekend in Calgary 19-20 October 2012

We had the opportunity to travel to Calgary to go to the Calgary temple open house. I decided to make a fun weekend out of it. We would leave Friday morning (yes, we'd even skip school- and that does not happen very often) play around in Calgary and attend the open house, and then stay in a hotel for the night. With a pool and waterslide, too!

My friends Inge and Angelique, the girls, James and Ronda and boys and my parents were all going to stay in the same hotel, so we knew we'd have a party! The girls were so excited. Me too!

And then Paul was able to come, too, which made the weekend even that much better!

We stopped at the Pro Bass Shop at Cross Iron Mills so we could see "Gaston's house." (you know, the antagonist from "Beauty and the Beast"). Paul entered to win $25 000 so we had to go around and try to spend his winnings. Then he went to the boats and it was pretty easy to spend it. In fact, we could win twice and not have too much of a problem spending the cash!

My beautiful girls with this beautiful moose

We then went to the temple open house. It was beautiful. The girls enjoyed it, although they got tired. It took us 2.5 hours from start to finish! But, there were cookies at the end. That helped their feet feel better!

Beautiful girls!

We didn't plan the view well- the lamppost looks funny right behind Paul! And I don't have any program to edit photos.

Family picture

Well, who knew?

The cookie helped perk her back up :)

The Calgary Alberta Temple

Two gorgeous girls

I've realized that Paul and I don't get many pictures together. So I asked Oldest to take a picture of the two of us in front of the temple. She is great at following directions! Here is on-line proof the two of us are still together and most days still like each other.

We went to Four Points by Sheraton. It is right beside COP. All four hotel rooms were in a row. That was fun! We stayed up late and went swimming. I should clarify. I watched the girls and Paul swim. The water was so cold and I'm such a wimp. And the hot tub was too hot! (When does that happen)!?

Saturday morning after breakfast at Denny's, we went swimming again, but it was even more fun this time as the Quilty girls and the Adams boys went swimming, too! It was quite the party. James and Paul decided they'd try to figure out who could make the bigger splash coming out of the slide. Paul asked me to document his splash, since he couldn't see how big his splash was. (Hence the videos). They weren't too serious about the competition, although I think James might have 'won.'

Paul's technique #1

Paul's technique #2

The girls and Paul

We then went to the Calgary Tower, even though it was snowing and I didn't know how much we'd be able to see. It was great! The 'glass' floor was new to me! Middle wasn't a fan of the floor. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration. She didn't want to walk on it. She loved looking down through the floor.

It was a good adventure. I have a sense of direction that usually helps me out and is very reliable. Until we get to Calgary. And then my sense of direction is lost completely. I am the navigator, and so driving around Calgary proved to be quite the mental exercise. However, we always got to where we needed to go and we got back home again, and Paul is still talking to me, so I couldn't have done that badly!

Have a great day!