This pretty little deer was roaming around our hotel. She wasn’t the least bit bothered by us! The rest of the pictures I took can be seen here. They’re very boring, and I didn’t take many!

I had a really nice day today. I left around 11:00 am, and did some “back to school” shopping for myself. Had a really nice, peaceful time, and then went to Mom’s and went out for supper with her.

Ben registers at the college tomorrow. EEK! How did I get so old??!!

We arrived home at 2:00 this afternoon. I unpacked quickly, and have been busy catching up on emails, and blogs, and such ever since! I went 5 whole days without internet connection!!!! *GASP* It wouldn’t have had to be, as I had the laptop, but the phone line into our room had a continual busy signal unless you hit the “flash” button several times. I fought with it for 2 days before realizing what the real problem was! Oh well. Did me good.

We had a pretty good vacation. We were complete and utter lazy bums! We watched a kazillion hours of Olympic coverage, read for hours and hours, and didn’t do a whole lot else. While in Calgary we took my SIL out for a really nice dinner, so that was nice. I had a totally boring day in Calgary while hubby was teaching, but once we got to Radium, it was much better. We both even made it back alive! *shock*

I really missed my early morning coffee chats with Candi! Just felt like something was missing all day!!! LOL

The kids didn’t wreck the house, in fact it had all been cleaned up nice before we got home. Sarah had some friends over Friday night, but all was good. Ben decided to NOT have friends over, so that was even better!!

I’ll post a few pictures later.

I spent a large part of today working on the school web page, installing gallery, and installing MT for the portal page, as it’s so quick and easy to update announcements, etc.

I did a bit of laundry, and started to get things organized to pack in the morning. We’re leaving around noon. Hubby has to be down in Calgary by mid-afternoon for a meeting.

I’m taking the laptop, and there is internet connections at our hotels, but whether I can get it all to work or not remains to be seen! I mostly want it to download pictures onto, and to blog from time to time. Also would be cheaper to keep in touch with my darling children. Pfffffftt!

I’m glad to be going on vacation, as it’s going to be nice to get OUT of here. I haven’t done near enough of that this summer, as I’ve been so completely busy painting, etc. I’ve had a few nice get-away-days, but not nearly as many as I’d have liked, and now I have to go back to work one week after we return! Acckkk!!! I’m fairly concerned as to ho w hubby and I will manage in confined quarters for 5 whole entire days and nights!!! He’s even been sleeping in the snore room again for the last long long time, so even THAT will be completely different! We haven’t gone away alone except for the 3 days to Victoria for YEARS! I guess it will be do or die! We’ll either learn that we actually can spend that much undivided time with each other, or we’ll kill each other, dump the bodies in the Canyon campground, and come home early (whoever is left standing!).
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