Graduation & Vanless

Last week Aaron graduated from BYU with his bachelors degree.  Yahoo!!  We are so proud of you Aaron.  It was such a fun weekend because Aaron's parents flew in from Atlanta and mine came in from Calgary.  Also Grandma Saunders was able to come up from Salt Lake, and Aaron's Grandma and Grandpa Salmon came from Calgary.  It was like a mini family reunion.  We had a great weekend filled with lots of yummy food, and fun visits.  We really appreciate everyone who came to support Aaron, thank you!!  I can't believe our time in Provo is over.  We have had so much fun living there.  We are going to miss all the Salmon's so much.  Ross and Karen's has been our home away from home for the past 3 years and it is going to be weird not going over there for all the fun dinners and parties. 

Aaron & Gary

 Well not only did we have a fun weekend, we also had a stressful one.  We had to pack up our whole house and move it into storage for the summer, and that is never fun.  Thank you to all the guys that came and helped move, we NEVER would have been able to do it with out you all.  And thanks mom for cleaning so much, it was a great help.   We then packed up our van with everything we need for the summer up in Calgary and headed out for the long drive north.  We stayed the first night in Logan with Diane and Conrad.  (Thank you so much)  and had a great visit until about 1:00am.  Then we woke up early and made it to the boarder at about 9:00pm.  We thought we would just breeze by with no problems because we have never really had problems in the past.  Well we were sure wrong.  Because Aaron has already graduated from BYU his student Visa is no longer valid, and we didn't have the new Visa from USC yet.  So we were Canadians driving a US vehicle trying to get into Canada. This did not go over well.  They wouldn't let us bring our van into Canada.  They said the only way we could bring it into Canada would be to import it for $900, and then when we go back to the states in 3 months we would have to import it back into the US. Even though he is technically still a student because he will be returning to school in the fall (but at a different school) they didn't care.  So we had to go back into the US and find a hotel for the night.  My dad drove all the way from Calgary in the middle of the night to pick us up. (thank you dad)  So our van is still in Sweetgrass Montana.  In a couple weeks USC will be able to get Aaron the proper paper work and then we can go pick up our van.  We were at the boarder 3 hours that night and then another 3 hours the next morning.  Now we know there are rules and laws about these kinds of things, and leaving our van wasn't the biggest problem for us.  It was the way they treated us.  We were treated like we were the worst criminals they have ever come across.  I was crying pretty much the whole time, not because of our van but because how we were treated.  I hate the boarder patrol, they are all on a power trip and have way to much power.  Well we finally made it have a had a great time so far hanging out with family.