After sleeping for 9 hours we woke up ready for the day. We were both happy that we slept till 630am, as it is a 5 hour difference from Houston, and we were fearful that we would wake up ready for coffee at 3am. Nope! slept right on through...whewhoooo!The plans for the day were limited as we just wanted to relax and get in the slow down mode. But the two activities on the agenda was a 2.5 mile sunrise walk from the fitness center and a luau in the evening. ...

A very early start to our day as our flight was at 6am, which meant we had to leave Ken's by about 3:50. The week had been very long for both of us, and we were not looking forward to the wake up time. Ken had very full week with meetings and work functions in the evenings, while I had lots of work and a quick trip to Midland to help Ashley (my oldest) who was sick. Nevertheless, we hauled ourselves up, taking solace that by the evening we would be hu...

With all of the exercise, we both slept really well. Of course it helps that it is PITCH black out and totally silent, something that we don't experience living in a big city. Ken decided to check the time (no clocks) and found it was almost 8am...wait a minute 8am?? Did we sleep through our morning wake-up knock??? So, we got moving so as to not be late for breakfast.Since we had learned that the granola/hot cereal is a precursor to the real food, we p...

Happy Birthday KEN!! The morning started out with someone knocking at our door at 730am, waking us up for breakfast. We had been warned that this would happen, so while it wasn't a surprise it was not a welcome sound. However, if we wanted breakfast at 8am, we had to haul ourselves out of bed and mosey on down to the chow cabin. Luckily, fashion isn't very important at Shadow Lakes Lodge, so it wasn't a lot of work getting presentable.We grabbed t...

Another beautiful day in Calgary! Sun is out, the bars are gearing up for another Stampede day and Ken and I have to do some work. We really need to win a lotto, invent something cool or inherit lots of money from someone so we don't have to work. Unfortunately, I don't see any of those things happening any time soon...so work it is.  While I am finishing up some meetings, Ken goes to get our mini-van. Yes, we are going to drive a mini-van. Why? ...