Long weekend in Canmore

We left Saskatoon Friday Aug. 29 and stayed at Cathy Olson/Walter Ridgway's condo and woke up to a gorgeous day in Canmore. Andrew and his fiancée Andrea Hermann and her mother Madeleine Hermann, and Ruth and I, and Jennifer and John and Imogen Wallace all stayed at the condo. We played "Settlers of Catan" on Saturday and Andrew won. We drove to Johnston's Canyon and walked to the Upper falls. (The ink pots higher up was another two hours and we didn't go there.) The next day we were shocked when we woke up to see about 4 inches of snow (schnee! in German) everywhere. We had a worship service at the condo on Sunday morning. Then we went to meet Krista and Gary and Victoria at Beamer's Coffee Bar downtown. (Andrea, Andrew and Madeleine went to the Highland Games right away.) John stayed at Beamer's to watch a couple of quarters of the Regina/Winnipeg football game while the rest of us went to the Highland Games a couple of blocks away. It had stopped snowing and raining by then but was still cold and miserable. We just got there at the end of a dog and sheep demonstration and got to see how the dogs intimidated the sheep into jumping into the back of a half-ton. Then we watched the grand march of all of the pipe and drum bands which was quite impressive. We found a lady wearing a MacLeod dress tartan and Andrew got a picture with her. Andrew is thinking of getting married while wearing a tartan but is thinking that the hunting or working tartan would be nicer than the dress tartan. We left for home on Monday afternoon after spending the morning cleaning the place.
The last picture is one of all of Roland and Lois Olson's children, taken in Weyburn and I was the one who suggested that they all line up with National Geograph magazines to get a picture taken from the oldest to the youngest. [Cathy, Wilfred, Marjorie, Bernard, Sharon, Conrad, Stephanie]