Today we spent the day in Calgary before heading out of town this evening to Kananaskis. After a slow start this morning we headed out with Phil's aunt and uncle and best man, Josh, into town. Our first stop was the Calgary tower where we went to the lookout at the top. The view from the top was magnificant. Calgary is a similar size to Adelaide but there is an incredible amount of consruction happening all over downtown.
Phil and I decided to make our own way after seeing the tower and investigated the +15; this is a business and shopping complex that covers about 5 blocks on 2 sides of the road. Despite all of the shops there were none with toys. There was however the Devonian Gardens on the top floor with some very big goldfish and some dog statues.
After investigating the length of the +15 we thought we would give the train a go and headed to Wal-Mart at Malborough. The mall was large and in a suburban area similar to that around Tea Tree Plaza. Wal-Mart proved good for Cars and we also grabbed some breakfast and lunch items to take to Kananaskis. We then headed home to pack up our things.
The bus to Kananaskis left from downtown just after 5pm. We stopped at the airport where we had a half hour stop so thought we better have a light meal of soup and a bagel at Tim Horton's; unfortunately they were all out of Tim Bits! This proved somewhat more difficult that it should be as the person serving us couldn't speak English and wanted us to order from the French menu because he couldn't understand what we were saying (Alberta is not a French speaking Province) finally someone with slightly better English came to help out.
The bus connected to a shuttle which got us to Delta Lodge at about 8pm. We had a quite night in ordering chiken wings, a cheese platter and a nice bottle of Penfolds to the room (I know all this way and almost every wine we have bought is Australian) along with the movie, Elizabeth: the golden age.
Highlight for the day: The view 320m above Calgary, overlooking the Rockies, especially over the clear balcony floor.
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