RIP Grandpa

We're home from Regina, and sadly the funeral of my Grandpa Bank. It was a sad time, but I take great comfort in knowing he is finally reunited with Grandma, who I know he missed so much.

Most of the time we're quite content here in Winnipeg and while we miss family and friends and wish we could see them more often, we're grateful for the good friends we've made here, our great jobs and the community around us. However, times like this really make me wish we were living in Regina. Not only so we would be around when we know others need us, but because it makes you think of all of the times you have missed by being so far away.

I wish we could have seen Grandpa more, I wish the girls knew their Great Grandfather better.

We'll miss you Grandpa.

Happy Turkey Day

I tried to post this earlier but Blogger ate my post - this version will be much shorter as I have to get up and go to work in 6 hours!!

We had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend, unfortunatly we didn't make it to Regina but we had a great visit with Allan's parents. Annika especially became a "grandpa's girl" and even cried when Grandpa left.

This evening we've been watching the election results roll in - I am disappointed in the voter turn out and can't understand why people don't take more of an interest in it. You're talking about your day to day life, your health care, your education, your finances, your FUTURE! Why people can't take fifteen minutes to get out and vote I'll never understand.

The voter turnout is showing as almost 60% for our area, 40% for Canada overall - I sure hope that increases as the last votes roll in. How sad if it's less than 50%. Pathetic really!

Ok - that's all for now - bedtime! I can't stay up and watch CTV all night, or I'll never make it to work tomorrow which is sure to be a long busy day with all of the late press to publish the results!