August 31st was the beginning of a 10 day adventure in the Canadian Rockies.
PART 1
Last year at the same time, Elaine's brother and his wife did the same trip and they raved about this so much, that Elaine and her sister decided to take the trip this year. We started a day early so we had time to see Calgary. The photos I took are located here and most have captions and some links.
The following day, a great time was had by all with a few exceptions. Our hotel was near the airport on the north side of town. We took public transportation to the downtown area. Unfortunately there was construction on the C-Train #202 route and after a couple of stops we were told to exit and take a bus a few miles and then re-board another C-Train. The normal time would have been 20 minutes, but this took us about an hour.
The second exception wasn't really a problem... there was a bit of a thunderstorm with some hail but we missed it entirely. Stopping in a downtown mall for about an hour, kept us high and dry.
Before the storm we walked around downtown and made our way to the Calgary Tower. 2 items drew us to this impressive monolith. First the observation deck with its 360 degree view and second to the revolving restaurant, the Sky 360.
Be sure to check out all the photos, captions, and links in my PicasaWeb album about the pre-day.
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