Once again I have managed to go for over a week without writing anything. Right now we are in Sidney, BC (on Vancouver Island) visiting family and attending Mike's grandma's funeral. Jesse is out walking with Brenda and Dan; Mike and John are shopping; Rebecca is sleeping, so I actually have peace and quiet right now!

Our day yesterday was interesting. We got to the airport in Abilene on time (that's a first!) and had a horrible time checking in. They couldn't seem to find the kids tickets. Then they told us that the kids had to have their own tickets because we were flying out of the US (I think he was confused about the difference between "international" and "intercontinental") Anyway, we finally got it all straightened out, ended up paying some more money, raced through security and got on our plane. The airline had decided to switch planes to a smaller one at the last minute, so we were on a packed plane. Luckily the flight to Dallas was only 25 minutes. We landed in DFW 7 minutes late, took the train to our new terminal; Jesse had some time to play around (up and down the escalator at least 20 times). We checked into this flight with no problem (they were not confused about the kids riding on our laps). This flight was empty, we each had a row of three seats to ourselves. Jesse slept a bit, Rebecca slept a bit. Four hours and two minutes later, we arrived in the Vancouver airport. We breezed through customs, picked up all our luggage, hopped in our rental van and drove to the ferry. We were the last car (#201) on the ferry. If we had missed that ferry, we would have been sitting for at least another hour waiting for the next one. The ferry had a play area for the kids, so Jesse had a blast going up and down the slide. We got into Sidney, checked into our hotel and went out for sushi! Jesse tried a bite (check out the video on dropshots). And we all went to bed early!