On Vacation

We are still on our road trip, and in true "Lorette" fashion, I packed the car full of everything you could imagine. Books, yarn, enough clothing and wine to last us weeks, etc. Everything except for the camera cord, so I can’t upload any photos to show you how lovely this spot is. We really did have sort of a plan for where we would end up, as we had reservations at a timeshare in the Canadian Rockies. We took a few meandering days to get here though, and now we’ve moved to a lovely spot near Lake Louise, in Alberta. Our room overlooks a rushing creek, and it’s just perfect.

Well, perfect except for the fun-loving guys who partied by the creek until 4 AM last night. John yelled at them at about 3 AM, and when it didn’t make any difference, I got dressed and went out and gave them my best disapproving schoolmarm lecture that they shouldn’t just quiet down, they should end the party now. I’m not sure if it was the lecture, or the sight of me in my Bat Signal sweatshirt, with my hair on end, but they called it quits and went to bed. Of course they left the fire going, and left numerous empty bottles of booze for the staff to clean up this morning. The manager said they are still here tonight, but she’s going to give them another dressing down and make sure it doesn’t happen again tonight. I hope so. I don’t want to be trooping around outside at 4 AM again tonight.

I have been getting some knitting done. I finally finished that Eggplant Jo Sharp sweater, and when I get back home and find the camera cord, I’ll post photos. It fits better than I anticipated, given that it has drop shoulders instead of fitted sleeves. I’m quite happy with it overall, even though I won’t be able to wear it for many months. I’ve also been working on the lace shawl in progress, and am nearly at the point of starting the edging. It’s the Forest Canopy shawl, and I’m making it in some leftover emerald colored Zephyr laceweight. I’m not sure how big it will be, as I had about three ounces total of the yarn to work with. I also forgot to bring my handy little scale with me. I started with one 2-ounce ball of the yarn, and another approximately one ounce ball. My current plan is to use up the larger ball on the body, then switch to the edging half way into the second ball. I think half an ounce of lace yarn should be way more than enough for the edging, don’t you? This is an easy enough pattern that I haven’t been using a lifeline, but I might just put one in a couple of repeats before I do the edging, just in case.

And there you have it. The photo-less knitting blog report. We should be home this weekend, so hopefully I’ll get some photos up next week!

Oh, and go congratulate Claudia on reaching, and surpassing her fundraising goal for the MS ride that she is doing this weekend. She is the #1 fundraiser for the event. She is also still taking last minute donations, so if you haven’t given, or if you have some extra cash and can donate a bit more, get over there. She’s perilously close to $35,000, people. $35,000 sounds like a nice round number, doesn’t it?

Author: Lorette

My name is Lorette. I learned to knit in 1999, and took up spinning in 2009. I'm a physician specializing in internal medicine, and live in the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy my blog!

10 thoughts on “On Vacation”

  1. I hope the rest of your vacation is restful. The Scoutmaster in me is quite concerned that they actually left the fire unattended. Yikes. I hope they are quiet and responsible going forward. Best wishes for an amazing vacation.

  2. Well . . . I think the sight of you in your bat signal sweatshirt at 3:00 in the morning would certainly shut me up! Especially if you looked at me over your glasses. Did you carry two sharp sticks with you too? Can’t wait to see your photos. So glad you’re having a great time.

  3. Love the 4 am partyers. Not. And the picture of you going out to yell at them. You have more courage than I, and more belief that you might be heeded.

  4. Lorette!!! For some reason Bloglines just picked up your last THREE posts! I missed you but I figured you were really busy (you were) and/or on vacay (that too!) So how’re ya doing girl?
    I would PAY to see that Batsignal clad Lorette 🙂

  5. Despite the noisy obnoxious neighbors, it sounds like your are having a fabulous vacation!! We are going to Northern Idaho and hope to find a similarly beautiful spot to have for a week.

  6. Hey, I think I was next to those guys the last time I went camping! Hee hee – you sound like me re: packing the car. I took SO MANY BOOKS. And read 2.5… and bought more than I took with me…

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