Canada Olympic Park Calgary

We've ARRIVED!!!!! :)

Only just i may add!!! :)
After a long, 12 hour flight we arrived in Calgary. We queued at boarder control for what felt like ages. The lady took are finger prints, and are forms and told us to follow the arrows on the floor. After thinking all was fine i then started to realized we had actually being directed to …

Day 1-
First full day in Calgary...this is definitely no the centre of the universe. I think the population of this city is around 34. The place was absolutely deserted, didn't feel like a Saturday at all. Luckily tour people were still around so three of us went off on a little tour of the area. There is one road really, and a one block …

We started the day with a great breakfast at Denny's with Brian & Jill. We had a little time before the wedding so we headed over to the Olympic Park which was not far from our hotel. It was hard to imagine the place as a winter Olympics site, as it was very hot and sunny. Bikers were riding up on the chair/bike lift and mountain biking down …

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Fort Calgary Historic Park
Inglewood Bird Sanctuary
Calgary Tower
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Wow! That was so much fun! I just got back from Canada Olympic Park - often scorned by Calgarians who have the Rockies on their doorstep but still good by Australian standards! It's excellent to know that I can finish university for the day, jump on a ...

... out where the Hart family lived it would be kind of intrusive even if only I'd drive by their place. I went to Canada Olympic Park instead. This is where 1988 Winter Olympics had the ski-jumping, bobsledding and luge runs. Driving around Calgary ...

... of Calgary! She pretty much drove me around all the sights (thus making my next 2 days somewhat redundant). It didn't take long. Olympic Park (now a couple of short ski runs where all the snow is melting), view over the city, Stampede Stadium, a tiny ...

... . We rode the lift and checked out the ski jump and bobsled then back to camp by 6:00 July 5 We were off to Olympic Park down town for Pan cakes with the drivers of the chuck wagons and visited the Glenbow Museum and Devonian Gardens after lunch ...

... our campground of choice for the evening: Calgary West Campground (http://www.calgarycampground.com/).  Its located right next to the Olympic park where the Winter Games were held in 1988 (I was shocked it has been that many years!  Time waits ...

... a couple of days before and that was what was left!! Oooh, winter is one its way - how exciting!! Today I went up to the Olympic park, where they had the 1988 winter olympics (Thought I'd start getting in the spirit!). The best bit of it was the ski ...

... up on some sleep with a later wake up call. After breakfast at the hotel we headed directly across the street to Canada Olympic Park where the 1988 winter Olympics were held.  The students split into teams and had to complete an Amazing Race style ...

... our final destination for the next couple of months, Ryans home town Medicine Hat, Alberta. I had been hoping to visit the Canadian Olympic Park where you can snowboard, taboggan or go luging down the track. I was so desperate to do this and found out ...

... of the season (well preseason) and well as there was no hockey last year the game was sold out. On the way into Calgary we did stop at the Olympic Park, where we were able to drive around most of it and we did go up the Ski jump tower - how anyone ...

The drive into Calgary was really easy this morning since the weather was great. We headed straight to the Olympic park because Chris had decided he wanted to do the luge ride that they have open to tourists there during the year. Unfortunately, when we ...