Slight change of plan

If things had gone ACCORDING to plan, Paul and I would already have been in an airplane for 2 hours by now on our way to Calgary. However, they did not. Instead of driving to Halifax yesterday and spending an evening with his parents before an early start today, we barely made it past Quispamsis before heading back into town to find a service station. Then we spent about 6 hours in the "mall" (such as it is) waiting to be able to drive it again. Poor "Little Tank"; he's been a good car, and hasn't given us a lot of trouble for being 10 years old. It wasn't his fault.

Anyway, $800+ later, he's feeling ship-shape, and we're going to try this again. I rebooked the tickets for Thursday.

So, the bright side: Right now we could afford to fix the car. That probably would not have been the case a while down the road (no pun intended). Also, apparently one of our tires was about to blow; we knew we needed new ones, but hadn't gotten around to it. Now we have new (albeit inexpensive) and SAFE tires with which to travel on.

And, if we're careful and financially modest in our entertainments while we're there, we can still afford this trip to Calgary -- all the entertainment I really need anyway are the people I love there (including two adorable children that I miss like nobody's business) and the spectacular view of the mountains.