Yesterday was a stat holiday in Canada, Victoria Day. In honour of Queen Victoria from way back. No idea when she passed and I’m too lazy to look it up. Luckily, I have Alexa, and she died in 1901. So,we still celebrate her birthday over 125 years since her passing.

None of us will complain, I’m sure. It’s a paid day off of work.

Yesterday was a relaxing sort of day. The weather wasn’t bad, a bit cool.but typical for this time of year, to be sure. It’s supposed to warm over the next two weeks so that daytime highs are in the upper teens. I can handle that.

My friend of 35 years visits next week, JB from California is coming for 5 days. We have a packed week planned. We are going to Waterton National Park on Thursday, with the dogs, and having Mexican food for dinner. I’ve actually never been to Waterton National Park so that’ll be a new thing for me. Should be a good day, it’s about 3 hours south of here.

We are heading to Banff on Friday and will take the gondola to the top of the mountain for some amazing views. The town of Banff is quite nice with little shops and cafes everywhere. I think we are going for Indian food Friday night.

On Saturday morning, first thing, we are hitting up the Calgary Farmers Market and then going white water rafting for the afternoon. We might go to the Calgary Tower in the evening for dinner, I’ve never been to the restaurant there.

He leaves Sunday, so we’ll go somewhere for brunch before I drop him off at the airport.

The week will zoom by, I am sure and it will be a good visit. We haven’t seen each other since 2020 so that’s 6 years now. We met back in 1990 at Camp Wahanowin in Orillia Ontario and have even friends since. I visited him when he was a student at UCSD when I was 21, we didn’t see each other again until 2006 but we’ve all kept in touch.

I’m looking forward to his visit.