Eh Hoser

We took a trip to Fairmont Hot Springs, BC to meet up with Grandma and Grandpa for a week.  It was an absolutely breathtaking place to visit, although it was a haul getting there and there were a few “snafu’s”, we had a great time visiting with grandma and grandpa and taking in all the fresh air and scenery!

1) We flew from Atlanta to Minneapolis, 2 hour flight, both boys were good on the flight, yay!  We had 45 minutes between flights.  Turns out there is seriously a mall in the airport, and it was between the gate we landed in and the gate we needed to go to.  RUNNING.  Last ones on the plane but we made it!

2) Then we flew 2.5 hours from Minneapolis to Calgary.  Again both boys were good, although Finn wouldn’t nap on the plane.

3) Finn fell asleep literally 15 seconds after we landed.  No.lie.

4) We crammed “all” of our luggage and car seats into a teeny tiny pruis….we had the option of a camry but we thought it would be FUN to try the hybrid.  silly silly people

5) 4 hours into our 3 hour drive, both boys are in the backseat crying and momma and daddy are trying to ignore it by taking in all the beautiful scenery when all of a sudden momma thinks….wait….where is the baby carrier backpack?  yeah, that’s right, we got it off the carousel at the airport but we left it sitting on the floor and just walked away from it.  so much for all that hiking Riley wanted to do.  he did go on a couple of short hikes where we all took turns carrying him, all 20 pounds of him!

5) 5 hours later we arrive at grandma and grandpa’s pad, just in time for dinner, bath and bed.

6) did I say bed?  someone forgot to tell Riley.  stinker did not sleep the entire trip.  tired does not even begin to describe.  thanks to the signs posted at our resort about grizzly’s in the area, there was always a bit of panic while we were walking Riley on the golf course from 5-7am every morning.

7) Monday night Riley had a raging fever.  after a trip to the next closest town 24km away and back to buy a thermometer, phone call to our pediatrician back home and a trip to a Canadian clinic, Riley was diagnosed with a viral infection and there was nothing we could do but give him tylenol/motrin and let it runs its course.  by Thursday the fever was gone.  but little dude was sick and not happy and not sleeping and nursed all night long every night.

8) daddy and grandma went on a big hike on Thursday!  Grandma climbed her first mountain at 62, not too shabby!  Way to go grandma!  but, there were Bears.  yes, plural, bears.  we are all just very thankful they are alive!

9)  Friday we had a beautiful perfect day!  Riley had his worst night yet but we decided to just power through with our plans.  so we packed up all of our stuff, drove to Lake Louise for a bit of hiking/walking and picnicking with grandma and grandpa!  Then we went our separate ways as we had to make our way to back to Calgary.  We took a scenic drive and stopped off in Banff for dinner and diaper changes before making the last bit of the trip.  I guess we got a little excited when we could finally see Calgary in the distance (or maybe it was Riley crying in the backseat)….speeding ticket. 

10) while walking around in Banff I thought I got something in my eye…that would never come out……and after the one hour of sleep I got, my eye was giant and swollen and hurt…..yeah, that would be pink eye.

11) while dining in Banff, someone left his credit card in the black ticket sleeve thingy (is there a name for that thing?).

But it wasn’t all bad, I swear!  Like I mentioned, the scenery was absolutely breathtaking, we had beautiful weather, we spent a lot of quality time with grandma and grandpa, we did some swimming, some hot tubbing, some shuffle-boarding, some hiking, some natural hot springs swimming, some golfing, some domino playing (momma blazed everyone out one night, grandpa’s term, LOL!) and some napping!  We were sad to leave grandma and grandpa but we were happy to come home….and to have our baby carrying backpack returned to us!!!  YAY!

Pictures and more stories to come!