I've been bleating on about this holiday to Canada for almost a year now, and I thought I'd bored everybody witless with it. However, a number of people have asked if I'm going to be putting pictures and whatnot up on the interweb as we travel around, and also asking if I'll be keeping them up to date with our progress. So I thought I'd give it a shot, and set up this blog (ordinarily I hate blogs, but I won't hate this blog cos it's mine, it'll be ace and way better than anyone else's blog).
I've also got a picture site set up, so if you click on this link here:
you will see pictures as and when I load them up (careful because it doesn't open up a new window). I should probably be more joined up in my blog/picture arena, but I'm doing all this last minute so it's a bit pants, sorry.
Anyway, the plan is almost 3 weeks in Alberta, Canada. We fly to Calgary, spend a few days there, with day trips to Drumheller and Vulcan. Then we start our tour in earnest, heading to Medicine Hat, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Canmore (where we are going to be based for a few days, taking in Banff, Lake Louise, etc), Jasper, then all the way up to Peace River, back down to Edmonton, and finally back to Calgary. We'll be hitting four different festivals - Canada Day, the Calgary Stampede, Peace River PeaceFest and Edmonton's Capital Ex (formerly known as Klondike Days). Not to mention the "Oh Canada, eh?" show in Canmore. We'll be travelling in excess of 1500 miles, and stopping in 8 different hotels.
I have a list of "big things to see in Alberta" as long as my arm, and I'll be ticking them off as we go (much to Sandra's consternation, I'm sure). These include the T-Rex in Drumheller, the spaceship in Vulcan, a giant boot, a giant pinto bean, a huge bee, the biggest teepee in the world, and Henry "12 foot" Davis.
It's gonna be mint.
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.. and rumour has it he is also going to Neil Peart's school, to see Neil Peart's first drum kit and where he first played the drums... but he hasn't had the guts to tell Sandy yet
Now that wouldn't surprise me :o)
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