Days 20 and 21 - 21th and 22th-6-2007 Calgary

First day in Calgary, and my first impressions is how spotless the place is. There's no street people or begging whatsoever (probably been shot!) Afterall this is cowboy town, Everyone wears a stetson. In fact they were giving free hats out for the upcoming "stampede", which is a week long cowboy festival. But thats next week and ill be gone by then! Yes I have a Hat (FREE), no, i wont be wearing it

Calagry is lot quieter that Toronto, but has a great park, lots of sculptures (manly of cows) and of coarse the rockies is only an hour or so away. The food here is exceptional. This is cow town, so if your'e seen in macdonnalds you will also be shot. (mind you theres not much meat in Mac!). One cool thing is they ask do you want gravy with your fries. How cool is that to us northern folk.

All of the Blocks are linked by first floor corridors. I found out this was not because there lazy, but is because in the winter the temp goes down to -15 C. No probs this week its hot and in the 80's.

Another strange thing is the kids are obsessed with skateboads. Everyone has them and they all seem to congregate around public areas were there are a good few steps to jump off. They have unorganised rallys including camera crews ( bit like our rave scene in the 90s) untill the police come to break it up, then there off, hundreds of them all skating don the main street, passing cars. Bizzare. Pirticularly when whey have a big skateboard park on the edge of town. But that wouldn't be fun!