Today was a busy day...Susannah headed to West Edmonton Mall with two school friends - they went swimming at the water park for the afternoon. Abigail and I had an appointment downtown, so we got up and drove down. We stopped in at the Reuse Centre for a few things - although it was a bit too soon after our last visit and they didn't really have anything. I don't think we will go again until Feb time...
Next we headed to the Bottle Depot. Abigail wants to start recycling bottles and cartons for money. We have always just put them into the recycle program where they are collected at the end of the driveway, but Abigail wants to start making some extra money, so I said we would go and find out about it! I did tell her that she needs to be responsible for it all but I will take her to the bottle depot every few months with the bags. So she is going to bag everything up and sort it and store it and when we cash it in she will get the money. We went in and got the information we needed - they were very helpful in there - the guys in there were pleased to have visitors I think and they had a little dog who Abigail fell in love with!! So Abigail will get 10c per juice box and water bottle and everything under 1 litre, and 25c for anything over 1 litre. Pretty good going! More than I was expecting!
After that we had a meeting to go to downtown, so we headed to that, which lasted about 20 minutes or so...not too bad at all. Then it was off to the Stollery Hospital to visit a friend who was in for surgery on her leg. While we were there they were given discharge papers which was pretty wonderful! They needed to borrow some equipment to help in the bathroom getting in and out of the bath and using the toilet etc while the leg is healing. The equipment loan centre is at the General Hospital on Jasper, and I knew how to get there, so was happy to rush back downtown before they closed.
So we headed back to Jasper and got there in time to collect the items. In the picture above you can see the waiting area in the equipment loan room. It is run by the Canadian Red Cross. It was quite an interesting 'field trip' for Abigail!! And for me as I had never been in there either!
Once we had everything we headed over to our friends house in Sherwood Park to drop the items off. The dad and sister were there and Abigail and her friend (the sister) decided to get the goat out and have a go at 'goat riding' which was hilarious to watch!
One mention of us getting one of their kittens though, and I decided it was time to head home ;)
We got home and the house smelled AMAZING - the stew we had made was ready to eat, so we all tucked in!! Yum!
I had a migraine, so took some Advil pm which allowed me to sleep all evening. Thankfully now my head is fine. Our friends are home form the hospital which is good to hear. Susannah is back from the waterpark and all is good.
Tomorrow is another day.....and I am looking forward to meeting a new friend and catching up with some old ones :)
