Cousins, cousins, cousins

I can't think of another time when Rini has seen quite as many cousins
as she has today! Last night, we travelled down to Calgary and stayed
the night with my sister and her family. It was rather spur of the
moment because I called her right when we were about to head out the
door. We were going to travel straight to Taber, but when I realized
the travel time was 5 or 6 hours, which would put in Taber around
midnight, I figured it would better if we just went to Calgary, then
continued to Taber the next day.

I used up a moment of brilliance with that idea, and I fear I may not
have another bit of inspiration for a year or so.

Still, it worked out remarkably well on a number of accounts. First,
I wasn't as tired driving, and we were able to spend some time with my
sisters as Liz was over for a visit with Isobel.

We spent a couple hours playing Wii, most of the time playing Boom
Blox. We tried Rabbids Go Home, but it seemed banal compared to the
previous versions we'd played. I was initially excited, because
Raving Rabbids and Rabbids TV are a lot of fun. Nevertheless, I had
not played Rabbids Go Home previous to last night, and I wasn't
missing much. Chris had never heard of the Rabbids series, and I was
rather disappointed that his first game was a rather poor experience.
Eh, you can't have sunny days all the time.

But at the end of May, I would expect there to be rain, NOT SNOW.
That was a horrible slap in the face when we went out to leave for
Taber, and there was 10cm of wet snow piled on top of the car! The
weird thing is that this happened last month when we went to the
Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. It's like we bring bad weather
with us!

Ah, I'm probably blowing that a little out of proportion.

It was great that Rini was able to play with her cousins, second
cousins, and her first cousins once removed. Those were the cousins
that she played with. It was fun figuring out the level of relations
that I had with everyone else, but I confused a few people as well.
Seems a little ironic that I learned how the relation levels work from
my first cousin twice removed.