Wednesday July 27

 Wednesday July 27


Horrible sleep on the hide a bed and up with the birds. Breakfast at 7 with mom and dad and cousin Lindsay who just got off a 12 hr shift working as a nurse on Saskatchewans Air Ambulance flying all over the province teaching people and delivering babies. 

We headed to her place and picked 2 pails of wild cherries, watered all the outdoor plants as well as mowed the lawns. We hopped in her little diesel car and off to Costco to buy two carts of supplies for the family reunion. A couple more errands and home for lunch of homemade wonton soup! 


















A quick nap and off and running as we drove the Jeep car up to Rosthern and brought the Motorhome coach back to the city from the park. We headed straight to Costco and waited half an hour but got both the coach and the car we were pulling behind filled up with fuel for 155.9 and saved more than 13 cents a litre! 










Home to the condo and bbq burger with auntie Etta joining us as she lives just down the hall in moon and dads building. Uncle Oni has been having many health issues and needed to spend a day or two in the hospital to get a transfusion as well as some fluids. 

Mom made amazing cherry jelly with all the wild cherries we picked. Yummy!! 



After supper, we watched some baseball and then Darren headed into the city to fill the TransAm up with cheap fuel and then poop over to the airport to get Krista of the plane! It was delayed a bit but we drove back to Martensville under an amazing Saskatchewan sunset. We had a quick visit with mom and dad and off to bed after 11 as Krista’s has to work virtually in the morning. A wonderful Saskatchewan summer day with many adventures!! 

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