holiday end

I'm sure all my faithful readers are on pins and needles wondering how our holiday ended. It ended like it began with a whole day driving punctuated by a few stops. We drove back to Alberta through Glacier Park through Logan Pass, a beautiful drive through the mountains that is only 53 miles but took us 2 or so hours as we kept stopping at viewpoints and for a couple of short hikes. However I think the most beautiful drive of the whole trip was on the way home north of Pincher Creek on Hwy 22, with the mountains on one side of the highway and the prairie on the other.
It was good to get back but we didn't have much time to sit around. We packed up Sam and his stuff on Thursday and drove to the city where we helped Anne and her very good friends finish packing up her apartment. She had a big pile of stuff that she couldn't take and which we would not have room to bring back to Rocky, so she posted free stuff on Craigslist. It was amazing, a large pile of bookshelves, furniture and other stuff just dwindled away as people showed up and very happily took what they wanted. A great way to dejunk. The things that were left from that Geoff and Sam took to Value Village.
We went over to her place Friday morning for the last bit of hauling and cleaning, the landlady came over for the the inpsection and we were all done by 11 a.m.
We took Sam shopping for school stuff and went to Steph and Rem's for Feast which was great food and conversation with some very nice people.
We spent a large part of Saturday waiting in line at Lister Hall to get Sam all set up. Went out for supper with him and Jude on Sat night and that's the last time we saw him.
Went to Anne's goodbye party for a bit on Sunday. Tim drove up for it, that was nice. A good brother. The party was good, Liam had made some delicious bison chile and there was lots of other good food as well.
Now we are home alone unpacking Anne's stuff from the truck. We are both feeling a little melancholy with Sam gone. But Grace will be home tomorrow.