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The End...
... for the friendly staff and the good trips we had
Calgary & Red Deer
After leaving Regina we were only going to drive a few hours to Medicin Hat because we were heading to Red Deer which was too much driving after the pearled. As we were looking for a hotel online, Heather suggested we go to Calgary and stay with her brother Geoff. It worked out great as he lives downtown. We were able to park the car and leave it there while we checked out Calgary. We first walked down to the Eau Claire market and then over to ...
Yee-Haw
... process was explained really well for people not in the farming business, which most of those going to the stampede were. After the livestock barn, we moved onto the real horses, which Laura was just itching to see... At this point, Laura and I split off from the others, as we felt like we were dragging them around, and they felt like they were holding us (well, Laura!) back. After this, we had a look at a couple of stalls around the draft horse area, and then when ...
Sweet Dreams
... meals, it was a cheap pasta dish and as much free bread as I could put away. When I didn't have money for that it was pizza, and when those few Euros weren't available, it was off to the grocery store for some bread stuffed with deli meat.
But there was always money for one thing - sweet, sweet, gelato! Sometimes even two or three times in a day - it was generally only a Euro or two for a cup, so ...
Alberta Bound
... to its rare dark hue, which - according to the dinosaur world - is very remarkable.
After the museum, we stopped at the Rosedale Suspension Bridge, which was originally constructed for the miners in 1931. The bridge was used until the Star Mine closed in 1957. And even though many people came to discover dinosaurs, the Valley was still a real coal mining area as well. In fact, the Star Mine (one of nine in the area) was one of the Valley’s longest running ...