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The time in Guelph was fun.  On Friday morning we picked up a car at the airport (very nice Chrysler 200) and our Brave Badger driver adjusted very quickly to driving on the other side of the road.  We were able to check into the hotel right away and Theresa and I took a little walk around the campus while Geoff napped.  It has quite a mishmash of building some old and ivy covered and others very new looking.  Anne caught up with us  at the hotel and she and Geoff started to sort out the moving details.  The went over to the Mishra's (Anne's friends who were driving her to Yale).  For supper we went over to a Mexican restaurant and had some very fresh wonderful tasting food.  Saturday morning Anne and Geoff attended to more moving details and Theresa and I stayed at the hotel, reading and waiting for Lisa and Richard to arrive.  The hotel is right on the edge of the campus, so we walked over to the hall where the convocation was being held.  We got there right at 1:30 which is the time that the instructions said, and found that the main floor was almost full already.  But we found seats, though not all together.  Lisa and Richard played the "we came all the way from Kelowna to watch our niece convocate, even though we don't have tickets can we sneak in and watch"  card and it worked.  After the ceremony took a few pics, then walked over to have refreshments and meed Mark, Anne's supervisor.  We had a celebration supper at the hotel, then the Mishra's joined us and we drank champagne to toast Dr Ferrey.

Sunday morning up and after breakfast we drove to the Toronto Airport.  A friend of mine who lives in Toronto, but is working in Regina right now also had a 4 pm flight, so I was able to have a visit with her before we left.  In Edmonton it was so nice to have Grace and Allison waiting for us.  Picked up the bags and home.