So a new province altogether, Alberta has been pretty trippy
I've been loving it, though right now am fairly exhausted.
It's been a bit of a whirlwind, arriving in calgary to meet up with Krista and her sister in law as we got off the plane and it was pretty awesome to drive around and get a good view of the place. We went to a kind of Calgary legend, a drive in burger place called "Peter's drivein" it's pretty much a long standing calgary institution that could freeze the arteries of something whose arteries could not be frozen. Ok so that didnt' make much sense but what i guess i mean is that although the burger was not bad, I was already feeling queezy from the horrendously bumpy landing, and now felt worse. lol
on that note though, bumpy landing aside, 10 points to westjet for being a super cool and pretty awesome airline.
so anyways
Yeah, so Alberta is pretty awesome. And pretty flat. And also pretty, well for lack of a better word, pretty. Krasta and I mostly chilled out and soon realiesd that we were ER twins sepertaed cruely and harshly from birth. In the short 4 days that i was there we managed to catch up on half a season of ER while milking cows and moving stock and even watching a calf being born (though 'pulled' apparently is the term of choice. eeeeeew)
it was pretty cool being able to do a bunch of farm stuff and hang out with Krista and her family so yeah, thanks Prins family that was cool.
Also, my favourite cow - Laura this is for you - is cow 89. And my favourite calf is 'Stubby face' Calf number 29something. :)
so now i am at jill's house whihc is near edmonton/le duc/witaskiwin/and camrose. which is albertan speak for we are about half an hour from anywhere :) my whole perspective of distance and driving has changed now


ok so i wrote most of that ummm, about 5 days ago.
things are really great, Jill's family are all amazing and awesome and I've had such a good time here just hanging out and relaxing and learning about homeschooling and planting gardens and playing a lot of tictactoe and speed and slaps with her little sisters as well as some serious olympic worthy trampolining with the aid of the sprinkler :) weather here has been cool and crazy with snow and 21 degree sunny days all in the same week. and they call auckland changeable!
so yeah, it's been awesome and i will post again soon when i can think of other things to add.

oh and my book plug for today (well for htis year it's so good)
Philip Yancey's book "Soul Survivor" I finially finished this book and it really is super awesome, highlight chapters for me were about Henri Nouwen and Frederick Buechner

Love you lots like Jelly Tots
Hillary