Saturday morning we woke to a cold windy morning. Good news though, no frost overnight. Too cold to go for a walk so we played Wii.
Sunday we walked up to pick up a few groceries then watched our usual Nascar race.
Monday we headed in to Calgary, our first stop was "CPR", not the railroad, Cell Phone Repair. Joan's tablet will not charge any longer. The diagnosis is a charger connector. It could be repaired if we could leave it for a week or so while they got the part. Since we leave for Regina on Wednesday we will get it repaired somewhere down the line. After a stop at CIBC to get some US funds in preparation for our winter travels, we visited our financial advisor to insure all was well. The next stop was Joan's visit to her Oncologist, her final visit since she is now 5 years cancer free. He told her that if there is a future problem all it will take is a phone call and he will see her right away. Nice to have such good service from these doctors.
Tuesday we went for our flu shots. Thanks to Elizabeth in Canmore we were able to get the shots early this year. As a thank you we took Elizabeth to to a Mexican restaurant in Canmore for lunch. John had the 'Mexican Bison Burger', not something you would expect as a Mexican dish. It was quite good. While waiting for the flu clinic to open we had a quick visit with our old realtor turned insurance agent, Terry Reider. We also encountered a previous B&B operator Jean Samis. While getting our shots we discovered that the reason no one was offering early shots to snowbirds is due to provincial budget cuts. In Canmore they held a clinic for seniors and folks living in senior homes. We had to convince the person checking us in that our birth dates did indeed qualify us as seniors. In addition to the regular flu shot, we also got the pneumonia vaccine, now that we are seniors. While waiting after our shot we had a short visit with Lester and Bea Carney. Lester was the B & B association president when Joan was past president. We arrived back in Cochrane in time to check our mail for the last time until we return back here next April. Our plan was to break up our drive to Regina by staying one night at Eagle Valley, but when we called them Tuesday evening, we got a recorded message saying they were closed for the season. We called the campground in Regina to add Wednesday night to our reservation there.
Wednesday morning we packed up and left Cochrane by 7:00 AM. When we drove by Eagle Valley there were trailers in various sites, so maybe we could have stayed. However on to Regina to honour our reservation. We arrived at Kings Acres in Regina just after 5:00 P.M. That is a long day for us pulling the trailer. We got setup quickly and thanks to the lack of leaves on the trees, satellite alignment was easy.
Thursday morning the microwave decided it was time to retire. Always something.
Joan took advantage of Karen's new washer and drier to catch up on laundry. We then went for groceries in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner.
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