Far From A Warm Welcome Home

So what better way to say welcome home than with a genuine blizzard! This is a picture from outside our front door this morning. Needless to say, our car has remained parked today since the only guarenteed way to get anywhere is by 4 X 4. The Grande Prairie airport even cancelled all of its flights last night. Why did we leave Ontario?

Oh by the way, Kris drove Dave to work this morning. Tonight's project ... shovel the driveway!

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.