Grandpa Visits Minnesota

Us in Calgary Alberta

At the Calgary Tower
Looking down!
At the Calgary Zoo
Cardston Alberta Temple

Grandpa's house in 1930's

At the hotel on the way there
Mommy and Rachel down the slide
T Rex statue just across the border in Alberta
mmm....yummy

June 22 - July 10 2007

Grandpa came to visit us for two weeks. We started with a 2 day drive from Lakeville, MN to Calgary Alberta. Long drive (1250 miles) with about 16 hour days in the car. We drove in our new van with the DVD player which saved us. I am including some pictures of the kids at one of the hotels we stayed at with a water slide. Dinosaur museums and statues seem to be very common in Alberta, as that is where they found alot of the dinosaur bones. The kids had alot of fun at those places. We got to visit Grandpa's house that he grew up in during the 1930's which was great (picture above). From there we went to Calgary and visited with one of Grandpa's cousins (Ches Pierson) and friends from his childhood (Gordon Ogden). We also went to the zoo and the Calgary Tower (pictures above). We had to pull Candice out on the glass that looked straight down (notice she is standing on the beam!). That was a pretty neat view down. On the way home we stopped at the Calgary Temple (above) which was great. After the long trip we relaxed at home for the next 10 days, without going anywhere in the car for a while!