I've Had an Adventure!

Hi everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving to my peeps to the south!

I left Grande Prairie on Thursday afternoon & got to Victoria Saturday night!
OY!
Edmonton & Calgary got a dump of snow, and flights were delayed and/or cancelled!
The airline put us up at a hotel for 2 sleeps, and I made the best of it!
Not dressed for the blizzard, some friends rescued me for Friday afternoon!

This post will be picture heavy, and not a crafty thing in sight, so you can stop reading now if you like!

We went to the Remembrance Day celebration at the parliament building.
There were a lot of uniforms!

 

Kalen...we're on our way somewhere!

 

This was a deer on the Naval base.

That's about all I was allowed to take a picture of there!

I got to tour Kalens ship/ which is still being refurbished or something,

and is not on the Navy website yet!

 

Kalen lives 1 block from the harbor!

You can see the water down there if you look hard!

 

There were some really cool houses on his street!

This one has got a lot of TLC!

 

I trotted down to the harbor every morning to watch the float planes!

 

And the ferries!

 

And check out the neighborhood watch!

 

We were on our way to Sydney for Fish on Fifth!

These poor pumpkins were drowning!

 

This was our ride some of the time!

Yes, I DID sit in the back!

 

Holly, REAL HOLLY!

My favorite plant in Victoria!

 

We went to a Salmon Run!

It was sad, but interesting!

 

LOOKIT!

The Whomping Willow from Harry Potter!

 

That's a lot of firewood!

 

 

Hahahaha, this made me smile!

 

The Empress still impresses!

And YES, I've had tea there!

 

We did Dim Sum!

 

I DID get to Michaels!

 

We went to Breaking Dawn Part 2!

 

We went to Spinnakers Brew Pub!

 

It was a great visit, and I was sad to leave!

The day I left, the ferris wheel was opening downtown.

It was the Santa Claus parade, and there was a wine tasting/ appetizer thingy somewhere!

 

Look at the ivy covered building!

 

Now I'm playing catch up at work!

Because my trip was delayed 2 days, I stayed another 2 days!

 

I'm making Christmas tags for the Stollery Childrens Hospital!

 

Saturday there's a Christmas Market, and I'm going!

 

I have to fit in wrapping the water lines this weekend, and getting out the snow people!

And baking....something!

 

Next week I have 2 meetings and I'm doing Happy Hour at the Old Folks Home!

 

Better go!

Hope you're all well!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

This will be Quick.......

Famous last words!
I'm leaving tomorrow to visit my boy, so wanted to let you know!
I worked all weekend on the baby gift for one of my bosses.......
don't worry, pretty sure he doesn't know about the blog!

Vanessa was here for a couple sleepovers and was impressed.
I said, "If I see a picture of that on Facebook before I get it to that baby; you might get a licken!"

 

Sorry about the pic on the messy desk (can you tell I'm working on a House Mouse!?)

It turned out better than the one on the table.

The next one's a little dark, but the rest all had a glare!

I used DP, quilling, buttons, stickers, foam, bling, you name it, it's on there!

And those mittens....I didn't know what to do with the string,

so there it hangs!

 

Just have to fill the boxes now!

 

Here's a chipmunk in a tree, being really still & quiet so I don't see him!

 

Sunset, and I'll have you know all the snow I whined about, melted!

I. KNOW! WTH!

It was tropical for a couple days early this week!

 

My suitcase for the trip!

Pretty sure Kalen hasn't been reading the blog either!

 

Vanessa & I weighed it Tuesday night;

 it weighed 36.4 lbs. and that's without my clothes in there!

It's stuff he bid on;

and I paid for from the Silent Auction at the Family Rebellion in August.

I'm taking him 3 containers of honey, cause they gave me a case at work.

His sister gave me his Christmas present to leave there.

I might or might not have his Christmas gift in there too!

The bear is one he was bidding on at the Silent Auction;

 my aunt won it with her bid, then told me to take it to him, cause she had so much fun!

 

So I'm off, I'll be back next week!

Hope all you peeps on the East Coast are staying warm & safe.

 

Stay out of trouble!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

 

 

Live Like There's No Midnight - Cinderella

Seriously!
Where does the time go!?
I've got picture overload for you here tonight!

Last Friday was the Open House/Silent Auction at the library.
I took these cupcakes; which were a big hit with the kids!

 

I ran out of icing sugar, so took a tier off my cupcake holder thingy!

The bats & pumpkins were edible, can you say SUGAR; the eyes & eyebrows were not,

but I thought they looked cool!

I also took the famous Pepper Jelly Tarts, and if I had a minute I'd find you that recipe,

cause I know it's on the blog already!

 

I know where the saying "Deer in the headlights look" came from!

This little feller was on the road one morning.

We were both stopped for a while, cause the snow's deep,

and he didn't know what he wanted to do!

 

This was the moon coming up one night, maybe the night I went to 'Card Camp'.

Of course these pictures won't be in cronological order....HA!

 

This is how cold it was Halloween morning going to work!

Of course the vehicle thermometer hit -31 in my travels!

Crazy hey!?

It was OCTOBER!!!!

 

One of our guys wives sent this to the office on Halloween!

She must have been up all night!

 

These are the trees to the west of the office!

They look like they all have skirts on!

 

Today I got Happy Mail!!!

I won this on Americas blog last month!

Check her out....she does awesome stuff!

 

I can't wait to play!

These next pictures are from Card Camp earlier this week!

I'm such a good friend, I told her I'd be the sixth person if she needed me!

Need I say more..........

I didn't take pictures of all of them either!

 

We made 6 simple cards.........

Those are tags, we just stamped a greeting, used some DP & ribbon......

easy peasy!

 

I think we made 6 of these; we used stickers, and DP.

 

 

And we made 8 tags, well, I'm using them for tags!

They're little 3 X 3's!

 

Also in the mail today I got the project I'm making for my bosses baby they had in August!

I know, bad Gail, but hey......I knew what I wanted!

It has to be done by December 1st, so I'd better get busy......

Yes, I'll take pictures when I'm done!

 

Better go!

Hopefully I'll talk to you again before I go visit Kalen next week!

I leave Thursday!

 

Hope you're all well!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!