Calgary Temple Open House

We headed up to Calgary bright and early this morning to attend the Temple Open House.  Mom & Dad had watched the kids last night for us while we went to a party, so we all piled in to the van and left at about 7:00.  As we were driving up, we saw the strangest cloud formations.  They looked like waves!  I managed to snap a few photos from the back seat through the windshield, so they aren't the best photos, but at least I got some!



 

 

When the open house was first announced we were told that we had to have tickets to attend.  When I went to schedule our tickets, the only Saturday time available was for today, so we booked it.  Afterwards we found that we could have gone whenever we wanted to, so we went earlier than our 5:15pm time that we'd booked.  Thankfully we did, because today was the last day for the open house and it was BUSY!  They told us that they were putting 1000 people/hour through the tour.  We didn't have a lot of time in each room as they kept us moving pretty quickly, but what we did see was beautiful.  Emma was thoroughly entertained by the booties they put on our shoes... when the lady put them on her shoes she told Emma, "Now your feet look like marshmellows!"  The rest of the time Emma called them her 'sticky (s)marshmellows'.  Ben didn't want anything to do with them, so when he finally wanted to walk, we just took his shoes off and let him walk in his stocking feet.  I wish we'd been able to get a family picture in front of the temple, but it was snowing and cold with pretty much a white-out... so no pictures for us!  We were more concerned about getting the kids back in to the van.  They were tired and hungry and 'done' with being quiet! 

We headed over to change at Aunt Marilyn's and then went to the Olive Garden for lunch.  Since it was my Dad's birthday, we treated him and my mom to lunch.  So yummy!  I ate way too much... but it was soooo good!

We then headed up to the Cross Iron Mills mall and spent some time in Bass Pro Shop.  Lennard almost got kicked out for drooling all over the quads (just kidding)!  Emma got a little pair of sunglasses and Ben got a hat (though he would not let me take a picture of him in it).

We finally got home at about 7:00pm.  The kids went straight to bed.  As Emma said, "It was a long, long, long, long drive!"