Spotted this neat looking Luna moth on the door last night. Haven’t seen too many of them around here before.
Door moth
Wrapping up the Edmonton trip
Today is my last full day in Edmonton, and it’s been a great trip, but it seems like it just flew by. Took the Basic and Advanced Canadian Amateur Radio certification tests yesterday and passed both of them. Met up with a couple of friends from my grad school days and had a good lunch with them.
Spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the U of A campus looking at all the changes. So many new buildings popping up among the old familiar ones that I know. It’s a very different place from when I was a student there.
A couple more errands today, and it will be time to wrap things up and get ready to head back to Charleston. Flight leaves at 8AM tomorrow, and I’ll be back in Charleston late afternoon.
Sad to be leaving, but it will be good to get back to Charleston.
Family photos
Got a few photos back from the photographer from Saturday’s photo session near the Muttart Conservatory. Apparently the Muttart doesn’t allow professional photography shoots unless they’re booked in advanced, so we ended up heading out onto some of the nearby walking trails to take photos. I think it worked out better. The weather was great and the scenery on the trails was very nice with the leaves starting to turn colour.
This is the first time we’ve all been together in the same place at the same time in about 9 years.
It was a good day, and it was good being back together again even though it was only for the day.
Some fall colours
Some nice bright yellows showing up on the trees this week.
Back in Edmonton, 2014 edition
After a mostly uneventful flight from CHS->DFW->YEG (the inbound flight at DFW was late getting in, so we ended up leaving about 20 minutes late), I made it in to Edmonton safe and sound.
My rental car ended up getting upgraded to a Kia Sedona mini-van because that was pretty much all they had left by the time I got there. Pretty sure you could cram a couple dozen people into this thing with room to spare.
After a quick stop at a Bell Mobility store to pick up a SIM card to use in my phone while I’m here, it was off to meet my friends Joe, Alexa and Tom at a Boston Pizza in St Albert.
Mmmm, Great White North.
Joe and Alexa are nice enough to let me stay with them again, which I greatly appreciate. Always nice to be able to stay with friends while I’m in town.
Not too much on the schedule yet, although that will change soon. Already have most of Saturday booked up with the family and a few other things I need to schedule over the week. The rest of my time I’ll get to play tourist and do some exploring again. Looks like I’m just in time to see the leaves start changing colour. That will be cool, it’s been a while since I’ve seen that.
With any luck, by the time I leave Edmonton, I’ll also have my Canadian Amateur Radio Certificate.