A Northern Visitor

I have had such a great weekend. Noelene arrived in Calgary on Friday night and after picking her up from the airport we went to Moxies for dinner and caught up. Well, I say 'caught up' but we speak several times a week on the phone!

She was here to renew her flight instructor rating out at the CLUB where I used to work. When she wasn't busy doing the things related to that purpose we filled her time with socializing! Saturday night Noels, J, and moi met up with S n' N and Rob for dinner and had lots of laughs as we always do. Then we came back to my place and watched Jackass 2. I'm slightly embarassed of how funny we all found it!!

Sunday, Noels flew with Athenia - the best darn instructor at the club and then J and I met them for lunch (where strangely enough all four of us ordered exactly the same thing!!). It was this very lunch that resulted in a rather lengthy afternoon nap!

Monday night we were treated to a 7 course meal at Rob's place. Rob never does anything small; go big or not at all should be his motto!! I think we counted about 9 types of meat and seafood throughout the evening. We began eating at around 1930 and finished somewhere around 2300!!! T'was Fun and Yummy and Filling!!!

Tuesday, Noelene did her flight test and did well (no big surprise). I went out to the club with her to be her cheering squad and visit some people while she flew. We ran into Suze, who happened to be the very person who first introduced Noelene and I so that was a great surprise! We had lunch and returned home to have coffee with Denis who still seems to beleive that Noelene will be moving back to Calgary any week now (nearly 3 years away hasn't convinced him that she's living rather permanently in Yellowknife now!!)

Then came my least favorite part where we had to take her to the airport to catch her ride on Canadian North back to Yellowknife. The cool part was that one of our friends was the Capt of the flight to Edmonton. Ahhhhh to fly for Canadian North..... Anyway, she made it home to Yellowknife newly re-rated as a flight instructor.