Planes, Trains and Automobiles

I am writing this while sitting in a train on our way from Ottawa to Kingston...A sad day to have to write about, leaving home and heading back to Onterrible, I mean Ontario. But before I get all gloomy and sad on you, let me tell you about our last few days a home! Once home from Whistler we had only a few days left to see some friends we hadn't seen yet and fit in some extra visits with others.

Over at Catherine and Anton's for dinner and a visit with the family

Out for sushi with a group of loved ones!

Out for brunch with family and friends!

Out for lunch with more family!

One last visit with family and friends!

I have never been away from home for this extended amount of time before and coming home for a visit made me realize truly how blessed we are to have such amazing friends and family. I know I've written about this before but it's something that has kept coming up during our visit. I guess I just realize how when I was living at home, I may not have appreciated my family and friends as much as I should or I just took for granted the people in my life...So to all our family friends, we love you guys and appreciate you and had an awesome time visiting with you!

So the dreaded day has come and we had to get up this morning at 4am to catch our flight in Abbotsford to Calgary. Not only was that alone upsetting, but leaving again is very hard! I find coming and going pretty emotionally draining for more reasons than one and am counting down the months until we are home again for good (about 17!). In Calgary we had a bit of a layover and then our flight was delayed about an hour. This meant that we wouldn't be able to catch the last bus from Ottawa to Kingston and had to say a few prayers that there would be room left on the train! We arrived in Ottawa, grabbed our bags, flagged down a taxi and had it take us to the train station! Our prayers were answered and we now sit on the train. Our friend Kris is going to pick us up from the train station and we will then, finally be at our destination! It's been a long day!

Tomorrow is going to start early as I have to get up for work at 7am which in B.C is 4am...Ugh! Carl doesn't have class tomorrow so he gets to do the grocery shopping! Kingston got there first big dump of snow a couple days ago, a welcome home gift? I think the average temperature is about -8, yippee...

Well, again we had an amazing visit and miss home and everyone there already :( Please keep in touch, we like seeing your comments on our blog, getting mail, emails, texts and any news from home!

Much love, Leah and Carl