Canadian Buffoon's Hi Low Vacation - South Central Musings

[mustinjourney]

And you can pick any genre you like.

Well -- If I can pick ANYTHING.

I'd go Classical/Baroque. You know what they say, if it is not baroque, don't fix it.

At work, I have a playlist that is mostly Baroque, Yanni, variations on pachelbel canon, and various disney songs on piano. Nice and relaxing -- makes it easy to read and write (I'm a patent attorney, so the majority of my day is spent reading and writing).

 

[Kiotzu]

Wow your trip makes me so excited for my road trip in August

 

[Mac Brew]

Hello Pkondz
Nice update I will have to go with the second photo but I think the first one represents the true scale of the seenery with all the obstacles in place and not removed as the barriers and bridge bits are taken out in the second photo.If I went to the falls based on the second photo and came across the true view I would be a tad disappointed. Ice field Shrinking due evolution ( two football fields ) some people call it globle warming it's just our earth evolving as it always has over the centurys.I like your photos of Lake Louise but it looks a lot smaller than I thought it would be considering it is one of your most famous tourist attractions.Maybe a good idea of the guides to force a rest room stop before the ice otherwise it wouldn't remain white for long due to the amount of the daily visitors.Nothing worse than discovering you've left an item fare fare away especially one as important as an ipod we humans would now be lost if our ipod's were wiped of the data we store on them.It took myself ages to get all the music on my one.

 

[Mac Brew]

Hello again Pkondz
Here's my answers to your latest questions
1. Rock ( 60''s, 70''s & 80''s ) Electronic ie J.M.Jarre, Kraftwork Tangerine dream etc. Pop from the sixtes onwards.Some country,I also like native American music ie Joanne Shenandoah ( Canadian ) Brule ( North AmericaAmerican ).
2. Phone sick daughter and the ice field to see if your ipod is still there.
3. Can't go wrong with chicken.

 

[pkondz]

Yup, that sounds familiar. It's a definite nice change when you can do that!

Except husbands never grow up.
Right?

Strangely enough, I don't think anyone guessed that particular purchase.

I'd have been pretty shocked.

Also, when I think mitts, I think oven mitts. But somehow I'm thinking you mean short for mittens. But I suppose you wear them enough that you need to give them nicknames.

Yes, short for mittens.... kind of.

These are mittens:

But these are mitts:

Mittens are for kids...
but we'd still call them mitts.
"Where are your mitts? Your hands will be cold!"

But these are mitts too:

and most definitely not mittens.

Growing up, everyone wore these:

Which are called "garbage mitts".
Supposedly because garbage men
would wear them.
So... they must be warm, right?
(They were.)

Second - it focuses your attention on the waterfall better

Three for three.

I can't remember if we stopped there or not. I know we went on glaciers at Glacier National Park, but I can't remember if we went to any other ones!

Then there's a good chance
you did.
You couldn't miss all the cars
parked there.

I dunno. I'm pretty sure I've seen Steep Grade warning signs for 10 degree or 20 degree grade before, so 32 sounds pretty steep to me!

Well there you go.
Take your ten degree grade
and make it three times as steep!

Lol. Some days, I feel the need to soak it in. Some days, I feel the need to take lots and lots of photos. Taking photos is a different type of focus.

Strangely enough, we didn't stay there, either.

No? How odd.

Woot! I looked at a couple itineraries, and just knew you wouldn't be able to resist stopping at all the cool places!

Ya done good.

1. I have pretty eclectic taste, but probably the folkier side of rock music, especially with guitars. Have you seen the "which concert didn't I go to?" game people are doing on facebook lately? Here are mine:
1. Shawn Colvin
2. Train
3. Air Supply
4. Billy Joel
5. Crowded House
6. Don Henley
7. Cracker
8. John Hiatt
9. Jimmy Buffett
10. Richard Thompson
11. Otis and the Elevators
12. Rick Springfield
13. Boiled in Lead
14. Lyle Lovett
15. Bob Dylan

2. Icefields Discovery Center (and hope they have your ipod!) and the sickie child
3. Steak

Noted.
I've seen the game in passing,
but haven't looked at it closely.
I've only been to a very few concerts.
Five, maybe?

Will add onto my PM with the other guess...

Got it!

 

[pkondz]

Soooo many comments...

And yet...
I don't see any... huh.

LOL! Losing things... this is gonna be fun!

Be gentle with me...

 

[pkondz]

I learned this at an early age (no offense intended for those with kids). I am amazed at the patience of parents.

And yet sometimes...
Those parental meltdowns
(while understandable)
are not fun to witness.

Beautiful!

I know!
I was surprised...
it hadn't been on my radar
until we saw the sign
and thought: "Why not?"

First one.

Ah ha!
A dissenting voice!

I thought this would be an opportunity to share that we reached a nice 88 degrees Fahrenheit today. A very pleasant 88.

Oh, sure.... great.... awesome...

(A small part of pkondz dies...)

wow - really shows the scale.

Sure explains why it doesn't
all melt away in the summer.

Still really beautiful.

I was worried that the clouds
would totally obscure it.
But it turned out okay.

Classic Rock & 70's/80's heavy metal

Sick kiddo & Discovery Center

Steak.

Noted.
(We'd get along fine
in the music department.)

pm being sent shortly.

Got it!

 

[pkondz]

Drat, I missed an entire update...and the points that went with it...and just when I was inching my way slowly upwards.

Sorry, dude.
You're not the only one...

Oh well, it's been a busy few weeks for me. There's been the one of only two sure things in life (doing my taxes) and the usual Canadian coming out of winter hibernation stuff (changing snow tires, raking lawns, unwrapping shrubs), and a couple other things.

Yes. Very familiar with those.

If I wasn't so lazy I would tell you more about it, but since I already wrote about it in the DisDads thread, I'll just link to it (I know you haven't had time to join in lately. I get it, life happens...see above and below).

"The Lord of the Dance" https://www.disboards.com/threads/d...of-the-disdads.3358596/page-600#post-57497346
"The Times They are a Changing" https://www.disboards.com/threads/d...of-the-disdads.3358596/page-601#post-57521233

Second first; that will be a pretty major change for you!
At first I thought "I wonder if he'll miss that."
and maybe a part of you will... but... 20 years?
Long time to be travelling.
Maybe you've seen enough now
and are ready to breathe easy now.

I've been to many (many!) of those competitions. Congrats to your DD! Are you guys going to 5678 Nationals? In Whistler this year I see. Long way for you. We went to it in Vancouver, Montreal and Niagara Falls.

Well, you did lose me for a few weeks. Maybe I just left that out as a reason why...

I knew it!!!!

She does exist! I was beginning to wonder if she was like Vera on Cheers (if you didn't watch that show, you obviously won't get that)

Norm!!!
Did you know (thanks Wiki)
that she actually walked on set once?
Diane hit her with a pie,
so her face is obscured.
She's also heard a few times.
She's voiced by Bernadette Birkett,
who just happens to be married
to George Wendt in real life!

I kind of like the second one with the bridge in it. I'm not sure why. That seems to go against the majority opinion after glancing at the replies.

Is it? I thought it was fairly even.

I looks incredible, and it's something I had not heard of until now. If I ever get back that way, I'll have to keep it in mind.

Do that!
It was really worth seeing.

Hi Betty and George! How was your winter stuck in Alberta, since you clearly were not getting back to your bus in time.

I think they actually made it.

I suspect the bus driver
gives them a time...
then adds on 20-30 minutes
for stragglers.

Not tempted to rummage around and check? I can't blame you. A hoof in the face probably isn't pleasant.

Nope!
I'll leave the elk fondling to you.

You know that movie is on the Top Ten list?

Top ten canoe inspired movies of the 1930's...but hey, it's there.

Had me going there for a second...

That's what she said.

(There are board rules so that was the best I could do. I thought @Steppesister would appreciate the attempt anyway )

I'm glad someone took the bait!

I do like pie, but it makes me sad. Lemon meringue is my favourite and my dear grandmother used to make it growing up. I now live in a house where the three females I share it with believe lemon is the most vile concoction ever created. My ever expanding waistline has prevented me from buying and entire lemon meringue pie for myself, and sadly very few, if any, places where I live sell it by the slice. Hence, I now never get to have lemon pie

I feel your pain.
Oh, how I feel your pain.

 

[pkondz]

"Picturesque"....? That may be the first time I've ever heard that one... might catch on; you never know!

How do you know when
you've disappointed your lady?

"Oh... that's.... picturesque, honey."

 

[pkondz]

Wish someone had told me that 9 years, 8 months plus 9 months ago....

You didn't get the memo??
Coulda sworn I sent it
to the east coast.

Huh.

Absolutley true. We have a drawer dedicated for them in our front porch. Another for toques. I feel very Canadian now.

We have storage bins.
One for parents, one for Elle,
one for Kay and one for
extra stuff 'cause there's
no room left in the others.

You know, I'm not sure about these either. I liked the second one, but then noticed the dudes with the camera on the lower right. There's more of the mountain in the first and I like the sunlight on the trees, so I'm gong to say the first one.

Interesting!
One of the things I like
about the second
is those dudes.
Scale.

Well, they do have Blizzard Beach, so...

Point taken.

And who asked you!

So, no writing your name in the snow, I guess? Sad.

A Canadian tradition
for generations.

And he's wearing mitts!
Four of them!

Hmm...you'd think $1.3 million would buy a few extra horsepower.

I looked it up.
250 horses.

I've had iceberg water and it really does taste different. They say the iceberg water is 10,000 years old. I suppose the glacier water is similar.

How did you manage that?
Got close to a grounded one
at low tide?

The same thing happened to me when I drove from Calgary to Banff in summer 2015, rain and low clouds. It was my first (and maybe only?) time driving there. Luckily, we stopped for lunch in Banff and the sun came out for the drive to Lake Louise.

Huh.
When we drove Calgary to Banff
with the kids,
the same thing happened to us.

As I mentioned, I lucked into a sunny day in Lake Louise. However, I did not make it to the lake for that iconic photo. I spent too much time drinking a, ahem, beverage at the top of the ski hill across from the lake. I can show you Lake Louise on a (mostly) sunny day though in one of my pictures. Trust me, it's there. Just look reeeeaaaalllllly far in the background.

Water? You drank water, right?

OMG! You got the Abominable Snowman!!!!
(And I can see the lake, too!)

And... was this before or after
your beverages.

I'm gonna say before.
You're too vertical.

I do not believe that is the word you were looking for...

Yup. Pretty much.

1. Country, but I'm OK with most anything besides hip hop and heavy metal
2. One to check on your sick DD, another to the Icefields Discovery Centre to see if you iPod was still there to make it worth a 2 hour drive backwards.
3. Burgers

Noted.

PM sent...

Got it!

 

[pkondz]

Well -- If I can pick ANYTHING.

I'd go Classical/Baroque. You know what they say, if it is not baroque, don't fix it.

Am strongly contemplating
deducting points for that!

At work, I have a playlist that is mostly Baroque, Yanni, variations on pachelbel canon, and various disney songs on piano. Nice and relaxing -- makes it easy to read and write (I'm a patent attorney, so the majority of my day is spent reading and writing).

Ah. So in your spare time....
You read and write.

Gotcha!

 

[pkondz]

Yes, it has been nearly a year. School turned into a full time job on top of my full time job.

That'll do it!
How's school going?
You must be done
at least for now?
Or are you doing intercession
or summer courses?

I have been well, heading to DL in August! Yep still on the west coast.

Nice! How long are you in DL?

How have you been!

Good days and bad,
but the good, far outweigh the bad.
And still above ground, so...

I'd say, pretty good!

Wow your trip makes me so excited for my road trip in August

Wait... DL in August...
And a road trip?
Details! I want details!

 

[pkondz]

Hello Pkondz

Hey Mac!

Nice update I will have to go with the second photo but I think the first one represents the true scale of the seenery with all the obstacles in place and not removed as the barriers and bridge bits are taken out in the second photo.

Interesting.
Never thought of the scale aspect.

If I went to the falls based on the second photo and came across the true view I would be a tad disappointed.

Really!
Now that's an interesting comment.

Ice field Shrinking due evolution ( two football fields ) some people call it globle warming it's just our earth evolving as it always has over the centurys.

Global warming may
have speeded things up a bit...
or not...

but yes, the world's been
changing since long before
we came along.

I like your photos of Lake Louise but it looks a lot smaller than I thought it would be considering it is one of your most famous tourist attractions.

It's not the size of the lake,
it's the location.
Perfectly framed by those
two peaks.

Maybe a good idea of the guides to force a rest room stop before the ice otherwise it wouldn't remain white for long due to the amount of the daily visitors

.Nothing worse than discovering you've left an item fare fare away especially one as important as an ipod we humans would now be lost if our ipod's were wiped of the data we store on them.It took myself ages to get all the music on my one.

I was a little... upset.

Okay... a lot.

Hello again Pkondz
Here's my answers to your latest questions
1. Rock ( 60''s, 70''s & 80''s ) Electronic ie J.M.Jarre, Kraftwork Tangerine dream etc. Pop from the sixtes onwards.Some country,I also like native American music ie Joanne Shenandoah ( Canadian ) Brule ( North AmericaAmerican ).
2. Phone sick daughter and the ice field to see if your ipod is still there.
3. Can't go wrong with chicken.

Noted.
Got your PM too.

 

[QueenJen]

I forgot to add - I'm going to guess that you were able to retrieve or have your ipod sent to you as we have pre-ipod left behind photos as part of this TR.

Growing up, everyone wore these:

Ok - blonde moment here....I looked at those and thought they looked like fancy oven mitts. insert smilie with light bulb above.....oven mitts....duh....just made out of a different fabric. I personally would have a very difficult time wearing any type of mitt longer than 30 seconds. My fingers need to be free. Come to think of it, my toes like to be free and don't even think about a turtleneck (loose ones are ok).

Be gentle with me...

I am just starting to ready through Steppe's TR - If I recall, there should be no room for roughness as something was left in a similar location. Although....I have not read all of the chatter.....you probably were not gentle to her........

(A small part of pkondz dies...)

Awwww....we can't have that. In other news - another beautiful day here! Blue skies, sun shining bright, not a cloud in sight.

(We'd get along fine
in the music department.)

There is really so much good music from that time period that is still popular today. Heavy metal isn't as popular, but I really enjoy listening to the various stations on XM.

 

[Steppesister]

I am just starting to ready through Steppe's TR - If I recall, there should be no room for roughness as something was left in a similar location. Although....I have not read all of the chatter.....you probably were not gentle to her........

I am very much looking forward to this....

I mean.... WHO WOULD DO THAT?!?!

 

[pkondz]

I forgot to add - I'm going to guess that you were able to retrieve or have your ipod sent to you as we have pre-ipod left behind photos as part of this TR.

The thing with apple products
(like iPods)
is you can have your photos
automatically upload
to the cloud.
That way if you lose your device
or it should break,
you don't lose your photos.

Ok - blonde moment here....I looked at those and thought they looked like fancy oven mitts. insert smilie with light bulb above.....oven mitts....duh....just made out of a different fabric.

I personally would have a very difficult time wearing any type of mitt longer than 30 seconds. My fingers need to be free. Come to think of it, my toes like to be free and don't even think about a turtleneck (loose ones are ok).

You know what you call a Canadian
who doesn't wear mitts in winter?

Frostbitten.

Actually, I had an instructor
who got drunk and passed out
outside clutching a wire fence.

He still has part of one pinkie finger left.

I am just starting to ready through Steppe's TR - If I recall, there should be no room for roughness as something was left in a similar location. Although....I have not read all of the chatter.....you probably were not gentle to her........

Of course I wasn't....
Because I knew already
that I had done the same thing!

Am I not a gentleman for allowing
her to mercilessly taunt me in return?

Awwww....we can't have that. In other news - another beautiful day here! Blue skies, sun shining bright, not a cloud in sight.

Same here!

Except here it's 66 and there it's 86.

But considering the temperature
of say... Pluto... or Venus....


Practically the same.

There is really so much good music from that time period that is still popular today. Heavy metal isn't as popular, but I really enjoy listening to the various stations on XM.

We have a couple of pretty good
classic rock stations here that I listen to usually.

 

[pkondz]

I am very much looking forward to this....

I mean.... WHO WOULD DO THAT?!?!

Who indeed?

 

[franandaj]

6:20am is the time your
supposedly adult child
will text you to tell you
that she has a cold.

Huh. Sounds annoying.

Child's expectations:
(and, to be honest, most men)

I'm glad you added the part in parenthesis, because that has been my observation.

Note to all my parentless readers.
Don't have kids.
They're horrid.

I have parents. But no children. There was a reason.

Ruby had decided to buy some mitts.


Well... okay. We're Canadian.
You can never have enough mitts.

I'm glad you clarified that whole "mitts" situation because I was also thinking oven mitts. I have no use for mitts here. If it gets cold we wear gloves. Can't do much with just a claw. Besides it never gets cold enough to keep our mitts on the porch here. In fact I just put away our scarves and gloves that had been sitting by the front door, unused since January.

Okay... this time I'm positive
I know which photo I like better.

Tell me which one you like for
free and easy bonus points.

I like the second one. It looks like it was taken from the ledge you can see in the first one. You get more of the waterfall and the river in that one.

Still... what we could see
was fairly picturesque.

I can agree with that!

The Columbia Icefield.
The icefield is made up of
six glaciers.

Wow, that's pretty cool!

Heaven forbid a boy should get wet...
in summer!

Anyways, I got scolded.

Just me.


The injustice still stings.

I know what you mean. You don't forget those kinds of things. I know things like that happened to me, but somehow I am conveniently forgetting them.

(I kinda wished I'd brought
my kids with me.
I would've picked one at random
and yelled at her.
Circle of life.)

I can't believe you said that.


Oh. Wait. Yes I can.

Each ice buggy costs about $1.3 million.
Heck one tire will run you $24 thousand.

How do you know this? I looked on Google thinking Fran might want one to add to the car collection and I couldn't find them for sale anywhere!

Around 11:30, we boarded
a standard bus which
took us to the loading area.
There we transferred onto an
"Ice Explorer".
(Think of the spawn of a
monster truck and a school bus.

Cool.

You descend a thirty two degree grade.
That might not sound like much,
but it's pretty impressive when
you're doing it!

I've gotten freaked out on 8% and 12% grades. I'd probably have my eyes closed going down a 32%

Love the dude on the left
giving me a huge photobomb smile.

I don't even think he's looking. His eyes are closed.

For bonus points...
Which one of the above
buggies is the one we rode in?
Why yes. You can tell.
PM me your guess.

OK. Did it.

Anyone blurting it out,
gets 30 lashes with
a wet noodle.

Or not. If you enjoy that sort of thing.

Well, you never know.

Soon enough it was time to head back.
We didn't spend a whole
bunch of time on the ice.
(You are allotted 20 minutes)
But it was enough.
We didn't feel like we needed
more time.

When we did the helicopter tour to a glacier in Alaska, that was about the time we spent on the glacier as well. It was enough.

...we piled back into the car.
We only drove about
15 - 20 minutes before
stopping at Bridal Veil Falls
for a view and a bite.

Yes. We actually ate
some of the food
we had purchased
a couple days earlier.
(Happy now?)

After guessing the route you took, I surmised that the food was for this part of the trip.

How long was it going to be
until the next time???

Well really you could go back there almost any time. You are Canadian and all.

I had considered staying here,
but I looked at the prices and...

The lowest rate was over $900/night.

Nope!

Who do they think they are?
Disney???

Even Disney doesn't charge that much at their flagship resort. Oh wait, you're talking Canadian dollars so that's what like $150 US?

My iPod was... gone.
All my trip notes.
My contacts, my calendar,
all our reservations and
flight information.

Gone.

Crap. I think I know now why you're envious of Liesa's luck.....

Email. Banking.
It's all on there.

Fuuuuudge.

And we all know what word you're meaning

And I knew what I'd done.


I'd left it on the TP holder.
In the restroom...
Two hours drive north...
At the Icefields Discovery Centre.

Who leaves a cell phone, errr I mean iPod on a TP holder?

franandaj - 449 points
Steppesister - 449 points

Woo hoo!

1. Next update's a short one so...
Favourite music genre?
(i.e. Rock, Pop, Country, Jazz... )

Well having majored in music I enjoy quite a few genres. Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Centiry....Ragtime, Swing, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Fusion, however, I find it my crotchety old age, I am going back to the music of my Youth. I have a playlist on Spotify which I named "Obscure Rock n Roll" and it had some of my favorite tunes by the Doors, Phish, UFO, Gamma, Blue Oyster Cult, and J.Geils Band. Things that you never hear on the radio. However as that list was too small and repeated far too often, I added some Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rush, Foreigner, Frank Zappa, and a few others. I still need to add some AC/DC tunes, and I thought of a few other bands which are not represented, but I barely have time to respond to TRs, and picking out new music for my Playlist is not that high on the list, since I rarely drive around in the car all by myself. That's the only time I have to listen to music pretty much.

I do NOT do Country. Rap Music is an oxymoron.

2. I make two phone calls before
the day is done.
Who to? (hints were left.)

To the sick kid and to the ice fields.

3. What did we eat for dinner?
Chicken, burgers or steaks.

I'm gonna say burgers. I had one night before last and it was good!

Did you see it?
You saw it, yes?
PM me the answer for bonus points.

Yes, I did, and you got it.

Awwww....we can't have that. In other news - another beautiful day here! Blue skies, sun shining bright, not a cloud in sight.

So whereabouts are you located?

 

[pkondz]

Huh. Sounds annoying.

You have no idea...

Wait.... maybe Fran does that.

I'm glad you added the part in parenthesis, because that has been my observation.

Yep.
And I'm doing nothing about
my contributions to that stereotype!

I have parents. But no children. There was a reason.

See????

I'm glad you clarified that whole "mitts" situation because I was also thinking oven mitts. I have no use for mitts here. If it gets cold we wear gloves. Can't do much with just a claw. Besides it never gets cold enough to keep our mitts on the porch here. In fact I just put away our scarves and gloves that had been sitting by the front door, unused since January.

We wear gloves too.
But you can't when it's cold.
Well you can... but then your fingers
get too cold and fall off.

I like the second one. It looks like it was taken from the ledge you can see in the first one. You get more of the waterfall and the river in that one.

I thought everyone would say that.
But I've had a couple nay-sayers.

Wow, that's pretty cool!

It kinda is, isn't it?

I know what you mean. You don't forget those kinds of things. I know things like that happened to me, but somehow I am conveniently forgetting them.

You're a better person than I am.

I can't believe you said that.


Oh. Wait. Yes I can.

Of course you can.
And it was easy, too, right?

How do you know this? I looked on Google thinking Fran might want one to add to the car collection and I couldn't find them for sale anywhere!

The driver told us.
I believed her more than
a Disney bus driver.

I've gotten freaked out on 8% and 12% grades. I'd probably have my eyes closed going down a 32%

It was... pretty darned steep!

I don't even think he's looking. His eyes are closed.

He's just shy like that.

Well, you never know.

I am learning so much about you, Alison!

When we did the helicopter tour to a glacier in Alaska, that was about the time we spent on the glacier as well. It was enough.

Yeah... It's more of a "been there, done that"
kinda place.

After guessing the route you took, I surmised that the food was for this part of the trip.

Actually, it was for the cabin.
I thought we'd be relaxing in
the room more.

I was wrong.

I frequently am.

Well really you could go back there almost any time. You are Canadian and all.

I should! It's only a 15 hour drive
from my house to Lake Louise.

Hmmmm...

Even Disney doesn't charge that much at their flagship resort. Oh wait, you're talking Canadian dollars so that's what like $150 US?

I checked.
Thanks to Mr. Trump, our dollar is taking a hit,
so right now it's $660 USD.

Crap. I think I know now why you're envious of Liesa's luck.....

And we all know what word you're meaning

Ice cream!!!

Well... hot fudge on ice cream.

Who leaves a cell phone, errr I mean iPod on a TP holder?

Yeah! Who'd be dumb enough....


oh.

Only people you've met at DL.

Woo hoo!

Ya like that, huh?

Well having majored in music I enjoy quite a few genres. Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Centiry....Ragtime, Swing, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Fusion, however, I find it my crotchety old age, I am going back to the music of my Youth. I have a playlist on Spotify which I named "Obscure Rock n Roll" and it had some of my favorite tunes by the Doors, Phish, UFO, Gamma, Blue Oyster Cult, and J.Geils Band. Things that you never hear on the radio. However as that list was too small and repeated far too often, I added some Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rush, Foreigner, Frank Zappa, and a few others. I still need to add some AC/DC tunes, and I thought of a few other bands which are not represented, but I barely have time to respond to TRs, and picking out new music for my Playlist is not that high on the list, since I rarely drive around in the car all by myself. That's the only time I have to listen to music pretty much.

We'd get along just fine on a road trip.

I do NOT do Country. Rap Music is an oxymoron.

Well said!

To the sick kid and to the ice fields.

I'm gonna say burgers. I had one night before last and it was good!

Noted.

Yes, I did, and you got it.

 

[Princess Leia]

Sorry I'm playing catch-up except I didn't quite get here for the competition. C'est la vie!

2. I would be in sooooooooo much trouble if I'd married you.

Well, I guess you don't know everything about women yet. Actually, as long as I get breakfast in bed and my dinner made I'm content!

It's also tactical.

Plot the route to and from the target,
acquire said target as efficiently
and quickly as possible.
Effect an egress at the earliest opportunity.

Wow that is exactly my tactics. Hannah needed a little black dress for a drama performance and I entered each shop quickly scanning the shop and headed for the desired garment. Quick look - no good and retreat.

Reason #783 for visiting Scotland.

What about reason #784 - Tim Hortons is opening its first UK store in Glasgow.

I love her smile.
It says. "Kinda cool to be this close... and kinda hoping he doesn't kill me."

She trusted her parents - those were the days!

I remember being very impressed by Maligne Canyon. It was truly spectacular. I remember Hannah and Peter enjoying finding fossils and watching all the little squirrels close up. We saw so much great wildlife in that general area including black bears and an osprey. I really loved Athabasca Falls. Hannah still has a wolf she got made in the Build a Bear in Calgary which she named Athabasca. He wears his RCMP uniform with pride!