HEADING TO CALGARY

 

 

Sunday the 30th of September

 

When I saw the front of this truck it took me back

49 years when I was fist dating Joe

He was driving a car that had belonged to his Aunt Mamie

The car's name was Myrtle

She was black

She was old

She had holes in the floorboard of the passenger side

but

She got us to where we wanted to go!!!!!!!!

 

Not many cars on the road

 

As we drove through a very small town named Hinsdale we saw this sign

We spent quite a bit of time in the store

Joe being a 'potter' himself had a good conversation with the potter

She had a shop full of wonderful pottery

We picked up coffee mugs

 

Just up the road from the pottery store was this painting

Pretty cute!!!!

 

Alberta sky

 

Gwendolyn took turns going from the back seat to the front seat

Spoiled?

YUP

 

Home home on the range

 

An old grain elevator

We came into the outskirts of Calgary around 6 p.m.

We travelled this route in order to pick up furnishings that Christine and Curt had left behind when they moved back to Ontario

We called the couple that were storing the items

Left a message on their phone although they knew we were coming to town on Sunday

Got to the apartment building

Left another message

Decided to have dinner around the corner at Jack Astors

Sat in the parking lot reading our Kindles until 10 p.m.

No call.....

Went back to the apartment building once again

We then left Calgary for Camrose where I had made reservations at the Best Western earlier in the day

Arrived

Where is the Best Western?????

Drove around and around then checked with another hotel to get directions

The Best Western had been bought out by Super 8

Checked in there

They had no confirmation of our booking

What????

But??????

I had called Canmore

INSTEAD OF

Camrose

OH MY GOSH

Hopped back in the truck

and

headed for Canmore which is just before the Banff gates

arriving around midnight!!!!!

Might add it was a beautiful hotel

but we were not there long enough to enjoy it

Sat at a table where we could look out at the moutains while having breakfast

That was nice!!!!!

 

Going through the gates to Banff National Park

 

Travelling along the Trans Canada

 

Whenever we travel this highway we look forward to stopping in Field BC for lunch

 

Oh dang!!!!!!

 

Field is a tiny community that backs up to the mountain

 

 

Rocky Mountain Big Horned Female Sheep

Near Golden

 

On to Sicamous

 

This is another place where we stop!

 

We stopped by the Sicamous hockey rink to see if

Beau's friend Cam was there

The boys have played hockey together in Arizona since

they were 8 years old

Sicamous is in the same hockey league as the Osoyoos Coyotes where Beau played last year

Also

Beau's friend Cody played on the same team as the boys while growing up

Cody is now playing for a team in Pennsylvania

The team is in the same league as the

Port Huron Fighting Falcons where Beau is a team member

SMALL SMALL WORLD

 

Too bad Cam was not at the rink

It would have been fun to surprise him

 

We have always wanted to stop at the Log Barn

Today was the day!

 

 

 

 

This was the craziest thing to watch

I put corn in a tin cup which was attached to a rope

The goats put their foot on a pedal which brought the rope up to them

The cup then emptied out the corn

These goats are smart!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Ha

This is Joe and I with our cat

 

This spot must be very popular

I talked to a bus driver and asked where he was coming from or where he was going?

He had picked up these folks who had flown into Seattle from Japan

They had been to Banff  and Lake Louise

and were working their way back to the US

They were quite taken with Gwendolyn

 

Coming up the hill

 

Ethan and Garen were there to greet us!!!

YEAH

 

What can I say

We're here!!!!!!!!

The O'Rourke farm

Penticton BC

 

P.S.  Just a little note for the gals who read this blog

During our trip west besides listening to an audio book

I read a book on my Kindle

Called

The Shoemaker's Wife

A GOOD READ

A

REALLY GOOD READ!!