Kaslo and the wedding...

After checking in at Vancouver Airport for our flight to Castlegar we were told that we should make it today. Make it today? What do they mean?

Apparently, Castlegar is often refered to as Cancelgar as most flights are either cancelled or delayed due to bad weather.

After waiting for nearly an hour we finally boarded our small 36 seater plane. We were on our way.... Our flight was okay - bumpy due to being in a small plane. Our bikes are fairing okay so far. The boxes are starting to look like something we grabbed from the recycle bin on our way out. We have patches of Duct tape all over the boxes to fix holes and tears.

Our final destination was Kaslo, a small town where I lived as an exchange student for 12 months in 1991. It was strange to be back in the small town where I lived 14 years ago. Nothing had changed - nothing ever changes......

We were the first of the guests to arrive and used the free time to wash our clothes and catch up on some much needed sleep.

Shannon and Trevor and the girls (Trish, Vicki and Tanis) arrived on Thursday and Stan and Hil arrived on Friday.

The plan was to decorate the hall on friday afternoon but as it was raining (again!!) on friday morning we decided to decorate the hall in the morning and hope for sunshine in the afternoon. No such luck. So we spend friday afternoon drinking beers in preparation for the big pre wedding party. There must have been nearly 70 people at the party and I even remembered some of them.

~~Wedding Day~~

Hil and I got ready first as we had to set up the wedding cake before rushing back for the wedding pictures. The cake was made up of 100 cup cakes with white icing covered by Gerbers (however you spell it). It looked cool.

The wedding ceremony was held on a restored paddle steamer - so beautiful. The weather cleared just long enough for Shannon to get some great wedding shots and for the guests to make it safely from the boat to the reception not too far away.

Shannon and Trevor kept the reception pretty simple and casual and that made for a really relaxed and enjoyable evening.

We have many photos which we will update at another time as the Calgary library doesn't allow us to plug in our camera to download the photos.

I will not waste your time trying explain how beautiful Kaslo is. I will let you see it for yourself when we link the latest pics.

Cam and I caught a lift with Neil and Marina to Calgary on Sunday afternoon.

My close friend Linnea travelled all the way down from Fort McMurray (11 hours by bus) to have dinner with us and then headed back the next day.

Linnea - you rock!!! It was so wonderful to see you again - lets make it less than 4 years between visits next time. xox

Well my time is running out - we are leaving Calgary tonight for London. We will try to upload some pics.

Hope all is well back home.