Week ending Aug 16

Tuesday and Wednesday we spent shopping for some small repair parts for the 5th wheel.  As our luck would have it, most of the items we required where not in stock.  We did get information and when we get to Calgary we will order the required items.  We had a bit of a rainstorm one evening in the campground, which resulted in a nice rainbow.

Thursday we scouted some RV parks for our next trip to Edmonton. However, we discovered that we had chosen the best in the area at Glowing Embers. As we were leaving the next morning, the people next to us were moving to a brand new park near Stony Plain, so we may check it out next time.

Friday morning, we moved to Coyote Creek Golf and RV park about 6 km west of Sundre. It is a great park with beautiful wide, long sites and is extremely well organized. The bathrooms are some of the best we have seen and the showers are the best by a country mile. But as usual there is always some issue, in this case no wi-fi.  As we are here to visit John's parents we can do without it for a few days. We have been chatting with John's parents on Friday nights via Skype, but today we will be with them in person.  After we got set up we headed to Bowden and spent the rest of the afternoon with John's parents.  After dinner we came back to the campsite and watched the Calgary/Sask football game.

Saturday we spent the day in Bowden. John's Dad had volunteered to help move the library books from the old library to the new one so John spent 6 hours Saturday with his dad on this project while Joan spent the day with John's mom, doing laundry and visiting.

Sunday we moved to High River, arriving about lunch time.  We have come back to the campground that was the beginning of our trip this summer.  Our grandsons were home alone, so they came over to the campground for lunch.  Trev came over after work, then we went for dinner at the Chinese restuarant where Sue works.  After dinner everyone came back to the trailer to visit.

Monday morning, Sue went into the hospital for an operation, so we went over to Trev's to pick up our mail that Jamie had been collecting for us for the last three months and then took the kids out for the day.  We checked out a few campgrounds in the Calgary area, since the High River one doesn't have the essential wi-fi.  Then we did the little hike up Heart Creek where we got some pictures of our grandsons, Anthony, Taylor and Jamie.

When we got back to High River we picked up some chicken and sides for dinner. Trev took the boys to see Sue in the hospital between dinner and desert. She was feeling well. 

Since the temperature was expected to go down to only 5 degrees overnight, we turned on the furnace for the first time in months.  Consequently, we have to fill a propane bottle for the first time since Rocky Harbour in Newfoundland.  

Tuesday Joan went to the High River Hospital to get her blood work done. This needs to be done 2 to 3 weeks before her CT Scan, for her next cancer check. We have learned that small town hospitals are much better to get this kind of thing done since the waiting times tend to be much shorter.