Week ending May 17, 2012

We spent the day doing laundry and washing the roof of the RV in preparation for rubber coating on Friday.  The rubber roof coating from the RV dealer cost $85 per gallon, more than twice what the fellow who recommended it, paid for it in the states.

We got a call about 9:15 from Trev on Saturday morning, saying that Taylor's soccer game was starting (we missed the text from Sue at 8:30). Taylor played goal until half time. In the afternoon, Joan prepared the dinner for Sunday, marinating it. John put on the rubber roof coating. In the evening, we watched the Nascar race from Darlington.

On Sunday, we bought some desert for Mother's day dinner with the kids. They came over in the evening, and everyone enjoyed the ginger chicken that Joan made. After dinner we played a variety of WII Fit Plus games.

Joan drove into Calgary to drop off a void cheque with our financial team on Monday. John touched up the edges of the rubber roof. The grandkids dropped in after school for the last time on this visit.

Tuesday morning, our last day in High River, we packed up the trailer and took it to the Autoplex in High River to get its bearings packed. That turned out to be a $600 job, taking about 4 hours because we have hydraulic breaks instead of electric brakes on the axles. We finally headed north about 3:00 and headed to the Westerner Campground in Red Deer. After a bit of fun getting the trailer in the right place (every once in a while we get reminded not to park the slider too close to the utilities), and setting up the satellite, we were able to settle down to supper and a quiet evening.

On Wednesday, we went to visit John's Mom and Dad.

John didn't sleep much on Wednesday night, but we needed to pick up some plywood and 2x4's with the truck so Dad could make his entrance level for Mom's wheel chair. We headed back to the campground after lunch and a bit of a visit. John had a good sleep to make up for the night before.