That's Happy New Year.........and this year started off with a *bang* or rather, a possiblity of a bang!!! We had a fantastic holiday up in Canada with the craziest, most loving, adventurous family you can imagine....and we are so glad to call them ours!!!!! Cooper learned to ski, Brooklyn would have NO part of it, and since it was minus 18 degrees the day we all hit the hill, we froze!!!
The entire trip was filled with family time, eating, cooking, visiting, ice fishing, card playing, eating, playing dress-up(kids only I assure you!), watersliding, skiing, deep cleaning(going thru OLD college boxes in the cool room), shopping, drinking Timmie's coffee, ................everyone had such a great time and we are seriously considering finding our way back up there permanently....
All a great end to a fantastic year!
2011 met us with our farewell trip to the airport in which we found ourselves on a plane with a damaged hydraulic system. We had just taken off and after about 15 minutes in the air the pilot realized that our landing gear wouldn't come back up , so he announced that we were going to have to return to Calgary, make an emergency landing, but NOT to worry, because there would be Firetrucks and Emergency vehicles 'waiting' for us on the ground! (ALREADY feeling SO much safer!) Apparently we would be having to 'burn off' some fuel,(no doubtedly, we were a flammable capsule of petrol!!!!)and would be circling the airport........those may have been the Loooooongest 15 minutes of our entire lives, not knowing if the landing gear would still BE there when needed, .........Your life really flashes before your eyes in a situation like that and you realize that family and friends are really the ONLY things that matter.......and so we landed( a perfectly executed one by the pilot), firetrucks circling us, all passengers still breathing and joyously applauding our safe arrival! Welcome 2011!!!!
Spending that evening in an airport hotel and having to reclaim our baggage, re-pack, go thru security & immigration and re-board a plane the following day were not the 'highlight' of our trip, how-ever they were a reminder of all that matters and that we were live, and together, and so we are going to push thru this New Year with more energy and purpose than ever before!!!!!!
