Canadian Thanksgiving!

For Canadian Thanksgiving Christopher and I made our first trip back to the Great White North since we moved down to Connecticut. In the days leading up to our trip I was getting quite excited about going "back home" for the weekend, even though we were heading to Calgary, which is almost 4.5 times further than the distance from Toronto to West Hartford, there is something homelike about being back in the country with dollar coins and funny colored money!

The purpose of our trip was to celebrate Christopher's grandfather's 90th birthday. What a special milestone! It's hard to imagine how much has changed in the past 90 years and that being a single person's lifetime. As you can expect from a 90th birthday, it was primarily a family reunion. Which was great for us because we had the opportunity to see and catch up with so many family members all on a single trip. Plus, there were several relatives that I had only met for the first time at our wedding last year and it was nice to be able to spend a little more time getting to know them.

During our whirlwind trip to Calgary (for all of 46 hours in total: noon Saturday to ~10am Monday) in addition to the birthday party we also managed to fit in not one, but two Thanksgiving turkey dinners! One thing about Calgarians is for sure, they are nothing if not hospitable. Thank you to everyone for opening your homes to us, inviting us for dinner, giving us a place to stay for a couple of nights, and letting us drink your beer!