March Madness

Russ would like to keep his dental license for a few years, so we went to Vancouver, Canada to do some Continuing Education. It only takes 4-5 hours to drive there from our house. 

We were fortunate enough to get a nice hotel on the 31st floor, with two whole walls of windows from the floor to the ceiling.  We had a lovely view of the city, ocean and mountains.

 One of the days Russ was in class I decided to walk to the World of Science. A couple of blocks from our hotel you can walk along the sea wall all the way to the Science Center. I walked close to 7 miles & should have worn more comfortable shoes!

 The IMAX theater is suppose to be the largest in the world. I watched a true story about a young Englishman who goes to the Amazon to study insects and the changes they make over the years. The other one I saw was, "A Beautiful Planet". I really liked this one. It was about 3 astronauts from Russia, Italy & the USA who go to the space station and live there for 6 months. It showed some great footage of the earth and what it looks like during a thunderstorm, at night with all the lights on & the billions of stars in our galaxy. I enjoyed watching how they had to exercise 2 1/2 hours a day to keep their muscles toned up & how they celebrated Christmas there. 

On my way back to our hotel, the closer I got, the more my right foot just above my heal hurt.  By the time I got to our room, I could barely walk. I texted our good friend John, who is a podiatrist and ask him about my foot. He said it sounded like Plantar fasciitis!! Wow, wasn't expecting that! He gave me some suggestions on what to do & within 2 days my foot was back to normal. He told me to watch it now, because it could come back!!

Science World at Telus World of Science

 Lindt chocolate store!

 Russ finished his classes Saturday by noon. We checked out of our hotel and headed to Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. It has a 450 ft. span

 We were here back in 1996 with Sherrie and Dave's family!! How time flies...

 Memorial Day Weekend 1996

 Crystal and Kristy

This was the trip where these two cousins bonded and started writing each other and eventually became roommates at BYU-I!!

Jacob-3 and Jared-5

They've done away with a lot of these cute Indian statues and the park is SO different.

Cliffwalk-this is new

They have built smaller suspension bridges all over that you can walk from tree to tree. Our kids would have loved this when they were younger.

On Tuesday I woke up and my back had gone out!! I've had this happen one other time, about 10-12 years ago after playing racquetball. I ended up being flat in bed for 2 days. I know several things lead up to it. I felt really bad because I was suppose to fly to Utah on Wednesday to help Lindsey out with her kids. I knew there was NO way I could go. I so appreciate my faithful husband serving me those days. I'm grateful for good friends who came to help give me a blessing and bring me flowers. I'm grateful for my sister Delina who filled in for me and watched Lindsey's kids!

By day 3 I could get up, but took it easy and by Friday I couldn't believe how much better I felt.

It seems like trials always come at the same time. Along with my health issues our refrigerator died, our faucet had a leak and was starting a lake under the sink and we received a phone call today from a policeman at our home in Ivins telling us a pipe had burst from one of our pool pumps and was flooding our neighbors yard!! Life is good!

Happy Family:)

 Jacob, Janette, Zayne & Janette's sister & husband arrived here Friday to attend a wedding reception for one of their former roommates. I'm thankful I could be here to visit with them, even if it was a short visit.

Precious boy!! 

8 1/2 months old

Even though I've had a few health issues the past couple of weeks, it makes me appreciate even more the good health I have.  I pray I will always use it to do good, be more sympathetic, serve others & not take it for granted:)