weekend in Calgary

Friday morning, Alex and I flew off to Calgary for the weekend to attend Christy's wedding. We stayed with my cousin Melissa, her husband Neil and her son Carsen. Yet another weekend that was over FAR TOO SOON...Oh...and I guess I took a lot of pictures...

We arrived at the airport SUPER EARLY because of the security measures and got to eat with plastic knives, although we got real forks and spoons. Alex was also very happy to be able to watch the sports...

let's go! let's go!

thought bubble: I wish we had a tv with sports on it at home...

see the lover-ly plastic knife?!?!

The wedding was beautiful. Christy and Rob both looked so happy! They were surprised to leave the church and find Christy's Swiss dancing ladies waiting to greet them and a horse drawn carriage to take them to the reception. Christy's sneaky dad waited until she went on vacation before the wedding and arranged with her colleagues for a police escort too!

Leaving sunny Vancouver

The Rockies

FLAT Calgary

Carsen with his new cars

Alex and Carsen playing with the pumpkin balloon (and Harley, the dog, sulking cause he didn't get to play too)

Alex was the chief navigator...we made it everywhere we needed to go, even when we made the directions up on our own!

Christy and her dad, Hans

Mr. and Mrs. Rob and Christy Christen

SURPRISE...Police Escort

see you at the reception...

Alex boogieing with the bride

Alex happy to go home...look he's got the paper and Starbucks...what better way to wait out the snow is there?

snowy, foggy airport

de-icing the plane

Oh and by the way...I still want to be a paleontologist (yes, I know these aren't fossils, but they are dinosaurs!) and I DID go to Calgary too...I'm just not in very many of the pictures...

pterodactyls

see, here I am...double chins and all