July 3rd - arrival in Calgary

Traveled today, had about 4 hours of driving ahead of us to get to Calgary, so we left the campground a little earlier, we were on the road by 9:00am, surprised even us!

Calgary is just about straight south of Edmonton, and we are now in the plains. Very much like Kansas or Nebraska, gentle rolling hills to the point of almost flat. Lots of cattle and horses, it’s called the Cowboy Valley (according to the map).

Weather is much better today, yesterday before the cold front came through we had a high of 87, today the high was 74. Suppose to be down in the 60’s over the week end with rain. Rodeo in the rain, sounds like fun uh?

We are ‘parked’ at McMahon Stadium, which is the football stadium for the college here in Calgary. So, we have electric and access to water, no sewer for a week and no WIFI. So, the only time I will be able to send updates is if we go to some sort of internet café. This is what I call camping rough!!

We caught up with Gail and Jim Cilioni and Randy and Terry Scott.  So good to see them again


Tonight we boarded school buses, that I think were meant for short legged pre-schoolers as there was absolutely NO leg room. We were taken to a place called the Winter Club where we were sworn in as Honorary Calgarians and then served a buffet dinner that was pretty good!