Kingston, Toronto, Brampton

Back in October, my super cool and amazing husband presented at a conference in Kingston, Ontario. His topic was: The Security Implications of Chinese Investment in Arctic Energy. He has explained what this means and how a masters in this will get him a job but I continue to draw a blank.
I was able to get a few days off work so I accompanied Tim to Ontario. Canada Toronto West  is where Tim served a mission for the LDS church. I was very excited to see Tim present and then enjoy the sights of Toronto and his old mission.
The conference was held in Kingston at the Royal Military College. The grounds of college are beautiful and have a lot of history.

I actually thought all of Kingston was quite beautiful and neat because it was full of old buildings and history. Kingston was going to be the capital of Canada but people felt that it wouldn't be safe because it was too close to USA.

Tim emailed the conference and managed to have me included! I died laughing when I read my name tag.
Tim started getting sick on the second day that we were there so I ended up wandering Kingston by myself and found some super delicious places to eat. I got to know the other CMSS students who came with us and ended up ditching Tim every night to hang out with them.

Every day spent in Ontario resulted in a sicker and sicker Tim. He powered through his "man cold" and delivered an amazing presentation. It generated a lot of interest and a lot of good questions. I was so proud. It was really neat to see what he has been working so hard on and has so much fun studying. 

UofC had some serious representation on this panel. From left to right is Tim Choi (PhD student), Andrei Shagalov (1st year masters student), Tim Wright (2nd year masters student). 

After the conference we went back to Toronto and hit up a Maple Leafs game. It was seriously so awesome and the fans in Toronto are intense. 

We felt extremely Canadian because we were also drinking Tim Horton's hot chocolate during the game. 

I tried so hard to be a supportive wife but Tim was not getting over his "man cold" and I was going crazy in the hotel with the lights off and quietly watching TV (with not PVR) while he slept. I went to a full 3 hours of church. The Brampton ward is lovely and I even made a connection to Welling. The church keeps you connected everywhere you go. 

Tim briefly left the hotel to go walk around the ground of the temple. We weren't able to do a session because the temple was closed for cleaning. 

The next day I ventured in to Toronto by myself. Tim was nervous that I would crash the rental car so I took the go train and bus. I was sooooo proud of myself for getting there and back with no problems. (I definitely asked a lot of people for instructions.) 

Definitely went to the top. It was pretty neat. In 1995, the CN tower was classified as on of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

The glass floor was super cool!

After going up the CN tower, I wasn't ready to go back to the hotel so I went into Ripley's Aquarium. It was also a super fabulous sight. 

No big deal but that is a shark.

When I arrived back at the hotel I found Tim feeling worse than ever. We had been pumping full of all kinds of cough and cold medications with no change to his fever so we decided to go to the emergency room. (I sure do love Canadian health care) Turns out his temperature was 39.9 C!!! Ooops! For a health care worker, I sure nailed that one. They took him in immediately and started him on IV antibiotics. After reviewing his medical history and realizing that he had been in China, we had a scare of Typhoid Fever!! In the end we think it was just a bad sinus infection. After the antibiotics were completed, Tim's fever subsided and he was starting to feel much better. We went back to the hotel where he tried to enjoy a hot shower that turned cold half way through. I called the front desk to inform them of our problem but reassured me that hot water came complimentary… gah! never stay at a super cheap comfort inn! 

Tim felt much better, just in time to fly out. Oh well, looks like I will just have to plan another mini vacation!

Fall

Fall in our household means the start of fantasy football. Tim took on the stressful job commissioner and organized a successful draft night. 

Tim's bestie got married and we couldn't be happier for them. 

Congratulations Steph and Blake!

The Wright's moved houses and was made possible by the LDS missionaries. Once the move was all finished Tim, Dede and Trevor enjoyed football on the couch in the new house. 

We took the Ngai's to Kananskis for shooting. This is a fun hobby that I have enjoyed since being married to Tim. If you split the cost of ammo with us we are always happy to take you out!! We love it… and Tim a little too much. 

We enjoyed a Saturday on the couch enjoying General Conference. Truly inspired!

Thanks to my super awesome job, Tim was able to have his eyes checked. This was his first time going to an optometrist in roughly 20 years. This is not a joke or an exaggeration. He ended up needing reading glasses and it was overwhelming to say the least. 

The store was having a 2 for 1 special so Tim walked over to the men's section, picked up a pair of glasses and said I will take to of these. What a rookie. I am made him try on lots until we found 2 pretty good pairs of glasses. 

I got to enjoy 4 paid hours off of work to go vote in our city election. Tim came with and voted for the first time as a Canadian. We celebrated by going to McDonald's for lunch! Mayor Nenshi was voted back in to office! 

Dairy Queen has pumpkin pie blizzard's in October because of Thanksgiving and they are to die for!

I also ate a lot of smile cookies in September! All proceeds go to the local NICU. 

Rocked my smile cookie shirt. 

I also started training for transport. The Foothills Hospital is a level 3 nursery which provides the most acute care south of Red Deer. When the rural hospitals have babies that are too sick for them to manage they call us and we go pick the baby up and bring them back. This is very overwhelming for me but I am very excited for my career and skills to grow. I love the NICU and the job role that the RRT's have there. Preemie power all the way! 

National Prematurity awareness day is on November 17th. It is always great to see the NICU graduates and their families. I am soooo proud of those babies. The road in the NICU is very long and filled with lots of bumps.

White Wedding

After safely making it home from China, I had many calls from my sisters saying how much they missed/needed me. They had no husbands and with the birth of Scarlett, the adult to child ratio was going down. We talked Tyler into picking up Denton and Kim and were able to go home a day early and made it just in time for the bridal shower. Thanks to Sheri, who brought the food, the shower was truly a success and we were able to catch up with friends and family!

 Erin asked Tannis a lot of tough questions about Nathan that she got wrong and had to eat some gum for!

Uncle Tim did a lot of baby sitting and just gave them whatever they wanted. The kids had a lot of diet coke and candy! 

They also loved Uncle Tim's bag of China tricks that had all of the cheap, noisy and cool toys we brought back for them!

Seriously! How cute is CoCo boy in his jersey from China!

Before the wedding we got our toes done. This was seriously the most relaxing part of the entire weekend!

Umm... I think those are some serious Wilde feet! Large and long skinny toes!

We also went out for dinner but I had to sit all by myself on the other side of the table. I was sad but that is ok cuz it was delicious!

Mario Kart Wii!! Of course we introduced Nathan to our favourites on Mario Kart and played a few rousing rounds of Jeopardy.

Eventually we did make it to the wedding! And it all went down with out a hitch. Congratulations Nathan and Tannis. We look forward to lots more fun and hopefully we don't overwhelm Nathan too much!

Could these kids be any cuter! And I LOVED Tannis's dress. She looked amazing. 

Sisters are seriously the best! 

We had to get resourceful for decorating the car and there was a tonne of whip cream at the wedding which worked out perfect for us!

The boys recovered from the wedding by having going out for a full day of golf. Tim was in heaven to say the least. 

No trip to Soab is complete with out visiting Grandpa Kevin and riding the horses. This time Great Grandpa Dudley even got out the chariot. This was the first out at the Dudley's that it wasn't crazy windy so it was very fun.

I think after all these years we still got it!

To finish off we all went to Wally's Beach. This is a hidden gem and was seriously so fun. We spent lots of time building castles and wading into the water. 

The boys thought it would be schemed and managed to get all of us wet. 

Scar was seriously awesome and just hung out everywhere we went!! I do love her and so glad she is finally here. 

It was seriously such a fun week and I am glad the White's got married and we all stayed safe. Can't wait til we all get back together for a party at Fairmont!