Salvogesis

It has been an interesting week or so here weather wise. I remember last week when Susan was preaching she had us all turn around and see the snow coming down: Great big flakes. Thursday of this week when I first left the house I turned around and came back in to change my coat – I traded my snow coat for a raincoat but that seemed to be a pointless exercise as the weather changed so many times that day that it didn’t matter what I was wearing. Raining, snowing, sometimes so sunny that I needed my sunglasses to even see down the street. Wednesday (or last night too!) was the big snow day – I think – Wednesday was the one where I had the most shoveling to do. After shoveling at home I headed to the corps here and shoveled around the corner. Justin showed up while I was hard at it and he was a really big help especially clearing the loading bay back there! Wednesday was also the perfect sledding day. Heather and I headed out to the hill by Williamson Park sometime after school and sl...

This week we went to see lights in Vancouver. They had an Aurora (Northern Lights) festival at the PNE grounds. Heather was able to go on stage and act out the part of Santa's reindeer, Prancer; she was able to go on a lot of rides and we were able to walk around and look at a lot of really interesting lights. A few days prior, we were in Victoria. This year they have lights in Centennial Square. We took a look at those with the girls’ cousin and my folks. We also looked at the lights in Chinatown and on the Parliament Buildings. And a week ago today Heather and I went to look at the lights at Milner Gardens. That was really quite something. Heather had been the day before so she knew exactly what she wanted to show me in the garden. We looked at all the lights through these special glasses that made them look like stars, candy canes, or reindeer. Then we had story time, cookies and hot chocolate, listened to musicians and carollers and had a very nice tea and scones. Heather ...