We're Home

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we arrived home to Grande Prairie yesterday afternoon. Thanks to Kris and Mel who had a yummy elk dinner ready to share with us. Other than that all we've made time to do is sleep ... so once we get back into the swing of things I'll let everyone know all about our trip.

P.S. Grande Prairie has a blizzard warning in effect today with an expected accumulation of 20 cm. Why did we leave Ontario . . . ?

I'l Be Home For 1 Minute Of Christmas ...

Yesterday morning Dave and I were to leave for Ontario, however, we we ended up in the hospital emergency room instead. I contracted what was probably a terrible case of food poisioning or the stomach flu that incapacitated me for about 24 hours. Instead of sitting on an airplane I was hooked up to an IV while Dave spent time on the payphone cancelling and rescheduling all of our arrangements. Fortunately we had gotten insurance on our flight so we were able to reschedule it to leave Christmas day instead. So for all our friends and family in Ontario, we'll arrive home on Christmas day at 11:59 PM.

Santa's Coming To Town!!!

Just a short clip from my favourite Christmas movie "Elf" to get you in the holiday spirit. Enjoy!

No Mo' Snow!!

I believe the first official day of winter is December 21st. However, we've been getting snow since the last week of October ... and it keeps on coming! Finally last week we had our street plowed for the first time this year. This was good because I (Erin) kept getting our Honda Civic stuck only a few feet from home. However, instead of being extremely happy, we were extremely surprised to find that the plows put all that snow from the street, over the boulevard, over the sidewalk, and into our front yard. Apparenly the city has claim to the first 3 meters of your property past the sidewalk. Unfortunate for us our front yard is probably only 5 meters deep. The result is a 12 foot snowpile (mixed with dirt and sod from our lawn) outside our bedroom windows. At least it's a snowpile right now. Come spring I believe that large hill will turn into a large flood. At least what grass wasn't dug up should be exceptionally green.

Celebrity Look-a-likes

I found this cool website off a friends blog today that scans a photo of you and compares it to those of celebrities. It tells you which famous person you most look like. Since Dave and I are the perfect couple that means our celebrity dopplegangers are totally with the wrong people.

Of course the site also tells me that with any photo I put in, that I'm a match for Charlize Theron (96% in fact!). If that's truth ... I should be getting better work. Guess Tom and Katie might be right for each other after all.