Friday, July 15, 2016

Thursday, July 14th

Thursday July 14th

These days seem to all be extremely similar when Krista goes to work and Nicholas and I are working stampede.
Today was a bit different as the boys slept in until noon but I was still up by 830 and doing errands around the house before heading out at 9:30. I sat in the chair waiting until 1020 before I was called in only to have the doctor tell me I need another week of eyedrops and I have to come back again before we leave for Europe. Oh joy oh rapture.
I drove up to Southland to pick up the mail for CCTCA. After leaving I decided I needed to have some pancakes so I stopped back in at St. Mary's University and had a quick plateful of sausage and pancakes. While I was there I saw numerous people from Saint Stephen's Ukrainian Catholic Church including Don and Pam Verdonck and Linda Dudar. I had a great visit but had to get home and meet another lady to sell the barbeque I posted online last week.
I spent several more hours cleaning the garage, installing new taillights into the truck and general filing. Jacob gave me a hand and did 20 chores before he was able to have the Wi-Fi back. Nicholas begrudgingly helped me with five chores before gaming. Lunch was had at the crack of 2 PM.
I was so excited to get a phone call from Tracy Yachnik who was in town with her son Phoenix and daughter Sophia as part of their Western Canada adventure from Victoria to Porcupine Plain and back  in two weeks. She had purchased a 1981 motorhome extremely similar to the one her parents owned and decided to go on an adventure.
She stopped by for two hours and we had an outstanding visit before Nicholas and I had to leave to head to the stampede grounds.
Nicholas has been caught up with the new Pokémon game on his phone trying to catch them at different locations around Calgary. He is extremely excited about it and really wants to try it out in Europe when we are there.
The train was completely packed and very busy. When we got down to the grounds, we hurried through the crowd and grabbed a bite to eat before our shift.
It was finally sunny outside for the first time in five days and the crowds were crazy on the grounds. I was extremely busy cutting vegetables and prepping beef and bison.
New bands had started to play yesterday and they are quite good compared to the bands that were playing earlier in the week. The days seem to fly by and the next thing you knew it it was 10 PM and time to go. I picked up Nicholas inside and headed to the train. We arrived at the last stop, jumped in the car, grabbed a Frosty at Wendy's and headed home for 10:30 PM. Krista and I watched some television and got caught up on the events of the day and called it a night. What a fantastic day!

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