Week ending August 23

Originally our plan was to leave High River Wednesday morning, but Sue was not released from the hospital until Wednesday morning. We had promised to pick her up, so stayed the extra day. Luckily the boys are old enough to look after her, so we headed back to the campground to do the usual housework. Then we went to the library to check email and then went for a walk. After lunch we did what all retired folks do best, have an afternoon nap.

Thursday morning we moved to Cochrane to the Bow Rivers Edge Campground. It is quite nice with wide level gravel sites, reasonable wi-fi and easy access to a satellite signal.

Friday we headed in to Calgary to have the 'axle discussion' with our RV dealer. They requested that we get copies of the receipt for the axles from Dexter in the US. We have hope that they will do the right thing and reimburse us. In the afternoon we visited with the Scotts, who we have known since Trever was playing Little League baseball. We had not visited them for quite a while. Our definition of good friends is that when you get together after a long absence you pick up just as if the last time you saw them was yesterday. This was the case with Don and Jackie. We visited for most of the afternoon.

Saturday we didn't do much, just enjoyed the warm weather while walking along the Bow River beside the campground.

Sunday we did some more campground recon. As we were driving into the mountains we decided that we knew which parks in Canada are the most beautiful. We still like the parks in Rockies the best. We picked up our friend Elizabeth in Canmore, and headed to Timmies for a drink.  As we were waiting in line, John noticed Steve waiting in the Wendy's line.  Steve had driven John into Calgary for the last couple of  years that we lived there.  It was great to catch up on what we had been up to since we last talked.  Then we went to check out Tunnel Mountain Trailer Park in Banff. It would be the perfect campground, if it only had wi-fi. We had hopes that since Fundy NP had wi-fi, that the Tunnel Mountain Trailer Court would have it now. We will have to send off an e-mail to the Parks to recommend that they add wi-fi to their amenities.

Elizabeth did a very nice barbeque dinner on her deck for us.  Here are pictures of a couple of the mountains that you can see from her deck in Canmore.

On Monday, we received an e-mail copy of the invoice we needed for our axles, and forwarded it to the RV dealer. Then we celebrated Jamie's, our youngest grandson, 11^th birthday, a day early. It is our practice with the younger boys to take them shopping. This year, instead of going to the toy section, he wanted to pick up some books. He also graduated to the adult menu when we took them out for supper.

When we got back to the trailer after supper, we had a knock on the door. A young lady asked if I (John) wanted to make $50. She was trying to set up her satellite system, as she will be here for a few months working in town, and one of the shops had told her it would cost $130 for someone to come out and set it up. We hooked everything up but unfortunately weren't able to get it working.

On Tuesday, we got up early and moved the trailer two sites up the row we are in. We had only booked for a few days when we arrived, being cautious about making long term commitments in campgrounds. When we asked to extend our stay until just before the long weekend (when we head back to the High River campground), we found that the site we were in had been promised to people coming in to visit with their parents in the site next to ours. We are spending the rest of the day waiting for a Shaw Direct technician to check out our dish because when we moved to this campground, we found that we didn't have about 8 channels anymore. These are the Alberta channels, so they are ones we like to have to keep up with the local news. After moving the trailer, and of course the satellite dish, this morning, we had the Alberta channels back. However, since this is likely still a loose connection in the dish, we need to get it fixed.