Went to visit Eileen B's daughter, Elaine and her 6 month old baby, Kieran. We programmed the sat nav to assist in this journey and after leaving late, because I couldn't find my driving glasses, we drove the 20kM across town and arrived safely at her house xxxx Bowglen Rd. Eileen tried, unsuccessfully, to get access by knocking on the front door, the back door and even the basement windows! No reply! We were by this time a bit concerned, and on getting no response from her neighbours decided to go back to Martin's to phone again - no mobile phone. As we reset the sat nav for the return journey Eileen noticed that we were in Bowness Road and not Bowglen Road which was only 200 yards away. We corrected our error and arrived even later and shame faced. Sheer fluke that the house number was the same in both streets as they are usually of a fairly random nature.
It was great to see Elaine again, last time was 13 years ago. Kieran is a super wee lad and the splitting image of his Dad when he was the same age. Unfortunately we didn't get to meet Guy as he is a fireman and on a training course. Their house is lovely, much better than the first one we were trying to get in!! Guy has done an enormous amount of work building garages, recladding etc.
After a short visit we set of for the Elbow Falls which was about 45 minutes away. A really super looking place with a decent trail for us to walk before it started to rain when we were furthest from the car. On arriving back in Calgary the sun was belting down and it must have been twice as warm as Elbow Falls.
After I had posted this yesterday Michael, Eileen's other son, called round with his girlfriend to take us out for an ice-cream. We went to a shop with so many flavours the mind boggled - there was even liquorice Fern! We took the ice-creams to a park besides the same River Elbow and once they were finished we played a Spanish version of boules. It is just the same rules but is played with larger boules - typical Spanish!! No need to report who the winner was but suffice it to say that Eileen is on a roll just now - we have to get her to the Stampede Casino somehow! When we arrived back at the house Martin & Heather had returned after having driven close to 1000Km that day. Heather was shattered and had gone to bed but Martin bravely stayed up for a while and we had a great chat.
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