Dad’s October Visit

Today is the last day of Dad’s first visit to Calgary. He flies back to Victoria around dinnertime today. It’s been good fun, and he’s already bought his plane tickets to return for Christmastime, so we’re looking forward to that. 🎄

He arrived Thursday afternoon. I worked from home, and when Ian got home from school, he and I got in the car and drove to the airport to pick Dad up. Dad’s plane was a little late, but only about 15 minutes. We met him coming out of the secure arrivals door. Stephanie had dropped him off at the airport in Victoria, and it was a good thing she did: the long-term parking was full.

Friday was shopping outings. I took the day off, and the kids had a half day of school, so Dad and I ran some errands to Superstore and Brentwood Business Supply, before coming back home and waiting for the kids. Then it was off to Market Mall for a walk around and lunch and then off to Chinook Centre, where we met Tammy. Dad wanted to see the Lego Store there. It’s not exactly Disneyland, but for someone who loves Lego like Dad, it was close. He chinwagged with one of the sales associates there, and found out about a new set that’s coming in January that will fit in with his village set.

We sort of overdid it with all the walking, so dinner was takeout Chinese food.

Saturday was our “Thanksgiving”. Tammy and I put together a turkey late lunch. (Okay, mostly Tammy) While things were simmering, we played a game of Settlers of Catan. Dad and Miranda were a team and they ended up winning the game.

Lunch was delicious, and in the end it wasn’t only the turkey that was stuffed. 🙂 Dessert was apple pie with ice cream, with an additional almond blondie that Tammy whipped up.

Ian’s chin band-aid was courtesy of him falling off the chair at the computer at breakfast time. We still have no idea what he was doing.

We digested for a while, but then I suggested to Dad that he could comb through our photo library for pictures of Mom. After she passed away, he went through the albums looking for pictures of her, and was upset that there were so few. I knew that we had a fair number, but they were lost in our collection of 33,000 photos. So he and I sat down for a couple of hours and found 187. He now has them on a thumb drive to take back to Victoria, and we’ve ordered prints from London Drugs, that should be ready to pick up this morning sometime.

Updated

We successfully picked up the photos from London Drugs and they turned out really well. Lots of pictures for Dad to file into albums now! We also took a couple of pictures, including this one with Ian, Dad and I. It makes me smile.