On May 5 a smooth four and half hour flight with Porter Airlines to Kelowna. Dropped off at the Toronto airport by Mark, and picked up in Kelowna by Hilary, Mary and baby Brooks. Sue and Ralph had moved on already by then to Vancouver Island and then took the Via Rail train back from Vancouver to Toronto (a trip I also made a few years ago)...
They also had a stop in Jasper and then enjoyed some of the beautiful sights of the Rocky Mountains from the train. They had more unscheduled stops - waiting for freight trains on the rails - and made it to Toronto about ten hours behind schedule; "slow travel" is was.....
In the meantime cousin Berry in Holland (the youngest of my sister Ger) celebrated his 50th birthday. The photo deserves some explanation. In Dutch there is a saying that a person of that age is becoming "een ouwe sok", literally translated "an old sock". Of course that translation does not work, but it is something like "an old fart", but a bit more polite (even though an old sock can reek as well...). So his wife, kids and sisters decorated their house with fifty old socks as a surprise.....
Mark and Carly celebrated their one year wedding anniversary in style with a dinner in the city of Niagara Falls overlooking from their table the famous waterfalls. Time flies. A year already....
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