Alberta - Day 1

Sandra says I have to blog this trip, even though I wasn't originally planning to, as it is a very short trip, primarily to places we've already been.  The only big change will be the size and age of the children, which is part of the reason why we are headed out to Alberta again for our holidays.

Today was a very long travel day, as all trips generally start out with.  We left home right after church, but then stopped in Moose Jaw so that the kids could go to Brickspo.  This year, I actually had a few creations in the show and had spent my entire Saturday there.  Upon arriving at the Western Development Museum, we had a picnic lunch and then viewed all the cool LEGO creations.  We let the kids look at everything once, buy something from the trade show and then we hustled them into the van for the five and half hour drive to Lethbridge.

It was the regular long, boring drive to Lethbridge, with the only difference this trip being that we filled the van with cheap gas in Swift Current before crossing the border into Alberta.  Seems odd to say that, since it has always been the other way around.

Upon arriving in Lethbridge we checked in to our hotel and then walked over to a pizza restaurant that the boys had seen on TV and really wanted to eat at.  I felt the meal was a little less than perfect.  The pizza was OK, but not superb.  The service was slightly slower than I wanted, and I managed to order less pizza than six hungry people wanted, meaning that everyone wanted more when the pizza was gone.  So, we ordered a bunch of dessert to make up for it.

Once we were done eating, we headed back to the hotel, where I took Alex and Evan to the pool and waterslide, where they happily played until it closed at 10:00pm.  Then it was time for bed.