Vacation! Yay!
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daemonlunaTomorrow morning, we leave for Victoria! Yay!
The original plan: We spend Saturday and Sunday morning getting ready in a leisurely fashion, do laundry, clean up the house, etc. Sunday early afternoon, we leave for Calgary, potentially visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
danma and ming_lei and the wee one, meet drakkenfyre and queenzulu for supper, stay overnight at my parents' and head to the airport at an ungodly hour tomorrow morning.
What actually happened: About 1 pm Saturday,troutkitty is talking to her dad. Who mentions a winter storm warning for Calgary overnight. We check the forecast. We check it again. We look outside at the 16C weather. We check the forecast again. We pack. Trout has a vet appointment at 3:30. We take him to the vet, come home, finish packing (and oh, wasn't that the DOUBLE ANGST for him, because VET AND SUITCASES.) We leave home at about 6 and get to my parents' about 8pm. Still no snow, but it is getting colder and we did drive through several rainstorms on the way up.
This morning: WHAM. There are 20cm of fresh snow outside and it is still snowing.
So yeah. I am glad we left in a bit of a rush in order to not drive through the aftermath of a snow storm. We also did not go anywhere today other than to the mall to pick up things we forgot.
Things we forgot: Swimming suits. Toothpaste. To mail the letters in my purse. Headphones for my ipod. Batteries for the camera. I am sure there are several other things we will discover when we get there.
But nothing crucial was left behind, and there was no driving through blizzards. So yay! (We'll see what I manage to forget tomorrow morning when packing up to go to the airport.)
And if anyone has recommendations for restaurants or shopping or such, let me know. :)
Vacation, yay!
The original plan: We spend Saturday and Sunday morning getting ready in a leisurely fashion, do laundry, clean up the house, etc. Sunday early afternoon, we leave for Calgary, potentially visit
danma and ming_lei and the wee one, meet drakkenfyre and queenzulu for supper, stay overnight at my parents' and head to the airport at an ungodly hour tomorrow morning.What actually happened: About 1 pm Saturday,
troutkitty is talking to her dad. Who mentions a winter storm warning for Calgary overnight. We check the forecast. We check it again. We look outside at the 16C weather. We check the forecast again. We pack. Trout has a vet appointment at 3:30. We take him to the vet, come home, finish packing (and oh, wasn't that the DOUBLE ANGST for him, because VET AND SUITCASES.) We leave home at about 6 and get to my parents' about 8pm. Still no snow, but it is getting colder and we did drive through several rainstorms on the way up.This morning: WHAM. There are 20cm of fresh snow outside and it is still snowing.
So yeah. I am glad we left in a bit of a rush in order to not drive through the aftermath of a snow storm. We also did not go anywhere today other than to the mall to pick up things we forgot.
Things we forgot: Swimming suits. Toothpaste. To mail the letters in my purse. Headphones for my ipod. Batteries for the camera. I am sure there are several other things we will discover when we get there.
But nothing crucial was left behind, and there was no driving through blizzards. So yay! (We'll see what I manage to forget tomorrow morning when packing up to go to the airport.)
And if anyone has recommendations for restaurants or shopping or such, let me know. :)
Vacation, yay!
