Canadian Update

We arrived in Canada Monday night. We were literally about 15 minutes from missing all our connections throughout the day. Our flight left late from Richmond, so we were literally running from concourse to concourse to make our connection to Minneapolis. Fortunately, that plane was also running late so we were able to board without too much stress.


Mr. Wonderful waved down a golf cart to transport us to our international connection or we would have never made it. As it was, we were the last on the plane and the last to leave once we did get into Canada. It was wonderful to see smiling faces waiting for us once we got through customs.

Yesterday we met some of our daughter's coworkers from the university for lunch. They were all very nice and really genuinely fond of our girl. (Makes a mama proud!) I love meeting my daughter's friends and seeing her world. Later that same day we were introduced to a wonderful couple (Jordan and Wendy with their 6-year-old son Mark). We laughed that our daughter is so controversial that she has to display her very conservative parents to her friends.

Today we went to the university so Dad could peruse the engineering library and then we met up with Angie and baby Hayden. Hayden is 7 months old but was born a preemie. He weighs in at 14 pounds now from his 2 pounds birth weight. Becky loves to babysit with this special young man, and he was all smiles when he saw her. (Sigh, can her baby get here any sooner)

We were able to do some baby shopping this afternoon. We bought some much-needed items and I oohed and awed at all the adorable baby clothes and items. I was good though and only bought this one little sleeper being modeled by adorable son-in-law Jerry. Becky bought a few items for the nursery too. It was so much fun and baby shopping is something that I've been waiting to do for a very long time.

We are going to do some more looking tomorrow and possibly get her to register for some items so her grandmother and Aunties have an idea of what she would like for her nursery.

We are enjoying our time here. It has been unseasonably warm but there is still snow on the ground. Mr. Wonderful has been quite the gentleman in walking me over the icy spots.

Tomorrow we will meet more friends and sometime in the next few weeks, we will be going to the enchanted forest ( light displays). Hope all of you are surrounded by those that you love and that your days are filled with laughter.