Notes for Pictures from A Year in My Life

Someone mentioned that I should tell people what the pictures are of or from in my Year in My Life slideshow. Here goes from the first picture:

1. My first and so far only time on a snowmobile (or snow machine depending on what part of the country you live in!). I got a chance to ride on one during the snow machine rally held in Pass Lake as a fundraiser for the youth's trip to Whitehorse.

2. Me in an igloo. During the kids' March break I joined a few families from Pass Lake out at the Sleeping Giant provincial park. They had had a group from the college's outdoor rec program out the week before and they had left these very cool igloos on the lake.

3. Snow golfing. One of the families in Pass Lake holds a snow golfing tournament each year on the lake in their backyard.

4. Kakabeka Falls. I took a trip out to Kakabeka falls just as they were beginning to thaw. These "Niagara of the north" are pretty spectacular!

5. Confirmation Day 2008 at Salem Lutheran Church in Pass Lake.

6. One of my best friends Lorraine and I at my sister's wedding shower a couple of days before my sister's wedding.

7. Me and two of my best friends Asith & Lorraine and I at my sister's wedding reception.

8. My "little" sis and I on her wedding day.

9. My dad and sis at her wedding reception. I love the expressions on their faces.

10. Me doing a reading at sis' wedding at Minoru Chapel.

11. My parents visited me in Pass Lake and we went on a sailboat ride on Lake Superior.

12. In August I traveled with 13 others (youth and a couple of adults) from Pass Lake & Thunder Bay to the national youth gathering of the ELCIC in Whitehorse. We flew to Edmonton and joined 13 busloads of youth and leaders to travel to Whitehorse. This is part of our Thunder Bay group at the beginning of the Alaska highway.

13. Our banner at the youth gathering.

14. My good-bye luncheon in Pass Lake. Inge on my left made the cross stitch door hanger with scenes from Pass Lake on it for my good-bye gift. Katie, on my right, decided she wanted to be in every picture with me that day.

15. My "new to me" little car all packed up at my house in Pass Lake ready to head to Saskatoon.

16. First week back in Saskatoon we went on an orientation week retreat north of Saskatoon. This is a beautiful scene just outside the retreat centre.

17. Scene from the garden at the Berry Barn just outside of Saskatoon.

18. Picture of the view on a hike up on the sunshine coast of BC that I went on while visiting a friend who had just moved up there. I was home during reading week in October.

19 & 20. Another picture from reading week trip home in October. These are both pics of my friend's little one Charlotte Rose. We took her to the pumpkin patch.

21. Halloween day saw me driving to Calgary to attend my friend Betty's ordination on November 2.

22. Chapel at LTS, a place of meaningful worship services for me during all the crazy times I spent in Saskatoon.

23. Anglican friends also from BC at the LTS Christmas party.