50!

COR & JOANNE

This morning we woke up to a "bone chilling", "skin freezing", "teeth chattering" minus 49. Yes, I did say MINUS 49. Not really weather conditions for venturing out on the QE2. But we did need to come home - after all, the party was over. We spent the weekend in Calgary at Cor and Joanne's (Peter's brother and wife). Cor turned the big five-oh this past week so we felt it was important to help him over this hill and prod him up the next one. Besides, who would want to miss the roast! Family and friends were actually quite nice and eased him into the next decade with only a gentle reminder that he is becoming more and more chronologically gifted. Those of us who are not far behind were very careful - our day will come too!


Highlights of the weekend would be:

- Late night visits.

- Picture tours of Cor and Joanne's trips to Holland and the Dominican Republic. The lush green of Holland and the aqua green water and white sands in the D.R. created a longing for warmer days and possibly more "adventure" ideas!

- A good "girl chat" while the guys went to the store of all stores - Lee Valley.

- Seeing mutual friends from our much younger days.

- Second viewing of the fantastic video created by their kids for Cor's birthday.

- Day spent together in Banff. Browsing. Visiting over breakfast, coffeee at Starbucks and an early supper. (We did lots of visiting this weekend!)

- One more evening of visiting (and cake) seeing as the roads were taunting drivers to dare to venture out with the snow blowing across them creating low visability.



40 + 10


Our host graciously had us put our truck in their warm garage last night so with the sun shining and the heated seats turned on we didn't really feel the numming effect of the arctic wind on our delayed drive home. No matter what the weather was - we had a good time with family, friends and especially with Cor and Joanne. We've needed a good visit for a while now and this was an excellent reason to get together! Thanks for the visit Cor and Joanne - the good food - the visiting, sometimes serious and sometimes just plain fun - and sharing with us your home and catching up on news and your travels! Let's not wait so long to do this again. After all - we are all empty nesters now!