Al

Wednesday July 6, 2022  

Today Lisa and I went to meet her long lost cousins. A few years ago some one who had matched up with Lisa on an Ancestry DNA test asked Lisa to help her find her birth father. After some pretty fancy sleuthing she found Al. Al had also found a half sister named Kylie.

Kylie lives in Calgary and Al lives in BC. Al has stayed in touch with Lisa and as soon as he found out that we were going to be in Calgary he bought a plane ticket and then asked if we could get together. We figured it was pretty brazen of him to buy the ticket before talking to us but it worked out and we had lunch this afternoon. Al was two hours late because he got lost but we had a wonderful visit with Kylie while we waited. Al has had a pretty colorful life. 

When I was a teenager me and my brothers and brothers in law would stay up all night acting as security gaurds at the motels on the long weekends. The parties would get quite wild. As it turns out, Al was probably one of the guys giving us grief. 

After we got home we spent the rest of the day helping Kira finish getting her house packed up. Justin had bought a truck and a trailer to help move stuff south. The excuse was that he could sell both the truck and the trailer in the states and come out ahead. He may sell the trailer but I’m betting the truck will remain. He does like to have fun and the truck will be fun.