VLA Conference

I was lucky enough to attend the Virginia Library Association's conference recently in Williamsburg, VA.

The conference was great! I learned a lot- but I wanted to share with you what really surprised me: I came home with stuff!

I will never run out of pens of questionable quality!

Time Travel: Lake Louise

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them (and not always at the right time). Sorry!

Probably the most beautiful thing we saw while we were gone, was Lake Louise.

The water was this amazing blue, the mountains were just barely concealed in mist, and you could see so far up the canyon. 

Time Travel: Banff

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them (and not always at the right time). Sorry!

Jer and I drove into the Rockies for a few days before we left Canada. It is so beautiful! I'd also like to mention that these are mountains:

Guys, gals, seriously. These are mountains. Afton "Mountain" may colloquially be counted among the giants, but if you've ever seen both, you know there is no comparison. 

Banff was this adorable little town that really reminded me of home; of course there are differences, but small towns all feel at least a little alike. They also have really cool manhole covers. 

Time Travel: West Edmonton Mall

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them (and not always at the right time). Sorry!

With some of Jer's old friends, we drove north to Edmonton, and visited the West Edmonton Mall, which I think at some point was the largest mall in North America, but isn't anymore. Who wakes up one morning and thinks, I want to build the biggest mall?

Regardless, it's huge. It's big enough that it has it's own pirate ship. Some lucky girl was having the craziest princess/pirate mashup birthday party on board while we were there. It also had a live seal show, and a hotel, and loads of other stuff. We barely scratched the surface.