Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Medicine Hat, August 16-18, 2013

In August, Macy and I had the opportunity to travel down to Medicine Hat to see Grandma and Grandpa Cutts, a weekend with them, who could pass it up! Sadly Chris had to work, so it was a girl’s trip down. Macy was great. It was a nice 5 hour drive, and since it was just the two of us, we didn't have any work schedule to work around. We arrived at about 4:30 on Friday. Grandma and Grandpa were waiting for us at the Medicine Hat Lodge. We checked out our room and went straight for the pool. It was a great pool area. They had some pretty good water-slides too, Grandpa, Grandma, and I enjoyed them (especially Grandpa), but no amount of convincing could get Macy to go (since we've been home though, she talks about going on the water-slide with Grandpa, maybe next time).
After a quick dip, we met up with Uncle Robin, Aunt Jeana, Aunt Terry, Aunt Pam, Christine, Uncle Chris, and Christian. We went to dinner at the Cheesecake Café. It was delicious. We got some free samples of cheesecake at the beginning, and they were good. After dinner we went back to the hotel and Macy went to sleep and I relaxed.
Saturday was my great Aunt Melba’s 90th birthday party. We spent the morning swimming, and then went to the party at the hotel restaurant. It was fun to meet more family and hear fun stories of Aunt Melba. I think there were about 60 guests, almost all her nieces and nephews, and everyone had great memories of their Aunt Melba. After the party we stopped by my great Aunt Phyllis’ house for more visiting. Aunt Phyllis has an awesome backyard which kept Macy very entertained. We had a quick bite to eat at Wendy’s for dinner, Macy convinced her grandparents to take her swimming once more (it wasn’t very hard), and then it was bed. We woke up Sunday, enjoyed free hotel breakfast buffet (which we also enjoyed on the Saturday), got ready to go, and drove back to Edmonton. And then on Monday, we moved….

Here are some pictures of the fun that was had.

We stopped in Strathmore to go to the bathroom and stretch our legs. We took a very short walk and found this train car in the parking lot next to the gas station.
Macy and her baby waving to you!
Swimming!
Just hanging out with Grandpa.
The big chair in the hotel lobby.
Apparently we were squishing Macy and she didn’t like it.
We’re so glad we made the trip. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for all the fun!

1 comment:

Julie said...

Sounds like such a fun weekend! Alice is sitting on my lap and loves Macy's baby doll. Alice always has her baby under her arm.

You and your Mom look so much alike in the pool picture! It was fun to read about your weekend. How fun to do nice trip before moving.