Canada

Mom, dad and I loaded up the car Tuesday morn' and hit the road at 5:30 am. Destination Prince Albert, Sask. Canada. Just shy of one thousand miles later we arrived at approx, 9:00pm. It was smooth sailing until a large hail (just past Yorkton Sk) storm brought us to the shoulder along with all the other traffic. We sat for about five minuets and prayed that the windshield didn't break. It was really that bad. I have see large hail but not for five straight minuets. Needless to say the van has some more character to it.

I was so excited to see my little girl, and my big girl too, of course. Just as I imagined she was bigger and was doing more new stuff. At the rate she is going she might be walking by nine months. Scary!

Bijou decided to wake up early at 6:30 am so I decided to load her up in the stroller and we went off to find Janet's dad Victor at his usual morning coffee spot, A&W. Right as rain, he was there. After Bijou and I split some toast we headed back and I re-assembled my bike. Of course I had to take it for a spin to make sure it all worked so I went around the entire perimeter of the city. I pulled back into the garage forty-five minuets later and about 15 miles logged. I wanted to go more but my knees still felt a bit stiff from the long drive yesterday so we took it easy.

The PA fair is going on right now so we all meet there and had fun doing all the things you do at a fair. From there we went to help Janet's mom Bernice, with her lunch/dinner. She has not been willing to eat her food as of late. Janet has found some success feeding her so we helped as much as we could and tried to get her better situated. If you are someone who is in favor of government controlled health care, I would invite you to come up and experience the hospital here. I will just say that it is not exactly what we are used to. It's not horrible unless your the one in the bed waiting for weeks for a doctor to see you and nobody knows when there going to have the time to come around. And that's just the tip of the ice berg. Anyways, it was good to be there for her and do whatever we could. It was very hard to see. The only info we could get out of the temporary doctor is that one of the tests showed that Bernice has a form of leukemia called CML, he was unable to explain very much of it except to say that it would take up to three more months of testing just to be sure. It is a difficult situation and I am so thankful that God has given Janet so much strength to be patient and caring both with her mom and the doctors and nurses.

Thank you for your continued prayers!