Road Trip to Canada!!

October 15th

Canada here we come!! Around 9 we grabbed our bags and headed north.  Our first stop was the Canadian-US border where duh, we got a picture with the Welcome to Canada sign.  Also we made sure they stamped our passports!! Then we headed towards our bed and breakfast in quaint Mountain View, Alberta. 

The B&B is the cutest little place in the middle of nowhere near the mountains.  We are staying in a loft room that has a little loft that you have to climb up to get to one of the beds.  Can we say awesome!?!  Yes I will for sure be tree housing it tonight and I can’t wait. 

After we checked in and got our key we headed back out the door to our next destination, Calgary.  On the way we made a stop at the Canadian version of Dunkin Donuts called Tim Horton.  One of our co-workers in Browning made us promise we would go and try their coffee and also bring her back a chocolate chip muffin.  The coffee was pretty darn good, but I would say O’Henry’s or Urban Standard could kick its butt any day.  Oh and while we were there we ended up chatting with this lovely man named Bob.  He sat down with us and chatted about Canadian and American politics, healthcare, and issues with oil.  It was very interesting! I just love making friends with random people!

Then we hit the road again and about two hours later made it to Calgary.  Calgary is pretty sweet.  We headed straight to the downtown area to hit up this place called Calgary Towers.  Bob had told us it was a must and I would have to agree with him.  It is sort of like the Space Needle in Seattle.  While we were up there we took full advantage of the beauty around us and took TONS of pictures.  

After our photo shoot 650 feet up in the air, we walked over to the 1998 Olympic Park where they gave out the metals for that Winter Olympic events.  Over there we caught the tail end of a protest.  We didn’t really know what was going on except that these youngins aren’t happy with big companies making bank while so many others aren’t.  We all want to research it a little more when we get back to the real world and have better internet access.  I think it is similar to the pop-up protests in America against Wall Street? I think?

Slowly we began mosing towards the car when we met some nice people from Kenya.  Then we met a Californian with Scottish/Irish ancestors that was jammin out the bag pipes.  We all stood around and chatted for a bit and I danced a few jigs for everyone.  Whooop whoop!! It was fun.

At this point in the day we were STARVING since we hadn’t eaten too much, so we headed toward this humungo mall called Chinook.  Chinook is Canadian for the winds that bring drastically warmer temperatures during the ridiculously could winters.  Neat huh!? At the food court we all chose to eat Asian food. It hit the spot.  Then we wandered the mall for a bit.  I ended up buying a shirt from the sale rank at Anthro.  I can’t wait to wear it!!

Now we are sitting in a Starbucks so I can post all of my blogs from this week before we head back to the B&B and the land of no internet, aka Browning, MT.  Also since I have the best eyes for night driving, I am going to get a coffee for the road.  The drive is about 3 hours so I want to stay alert :) 

So today has been a smashing success, full of fun of pictures and continuous laughter.  Way to go Canada!