It has been quite some since I have published a post on here, so I felt that it was time to get at it.  This past June 2022, we traveled to Canada.  It was almost 2.5 years since I had been there due to the pandemic and at least 3.5 years for Dix, so it was definitely time to see family from the youngest to the oldest.  And we did. It was fantastic.  The youngest was almost 1 and the oldest was 91.  So there has been 90 years of history and living.  We rented a Airbnb and had a really good time. Poppy cooked his not so famous Cajun chicken Caesar salad and there was Oilers playoff hockey on the television.  Now how could it possibly get any better than that!!!!  To top it all off, Maverick was so enthused that he is now enrolled in hockey.  Now that was really a true Canadian moment.  We had Chelsey and Liz, Maverick and Gunnar.  We also had Shawn and Tash, Sammy and Presley.  Ray and Lorna and Jennifer along with Jeremey and Jessica and the very newest addition to the family, Sophie came as well.  

A great crowd of course.  It was good to see Dad (Grandpa Ken) after a couple of years and as they say, time takes its toll.  The years of hard physical work start to take its toll and now pain enters the equation.  So far though, he is hanging in there and for that we are grateful.

Dix had to go through all the testing requirements to get back to the US and luckily passed with flying colors. I dropped her off and she started the long trip back to Memphis.

I was fortunate enough to spend a few days with Tash and the girls in Lethbridge, as Shawn was at a conference in Vegas.  I got to do what grandparents normally do and that is taking kids to their activities. It was fun and I realized how we in the old days, to used to take their mom and aunt to their activities. It seemed like a picture back in time.

All good times always come to an end and it was time to head back to Nebraska.  It was a great trip and other than catching the Covid at the end and feeling it when I got back, it was a trip that will be forever etched in the memories.