Calgary, Canada, September 17-20

   At any rate, we finally got to a wonderful Bed and Breakfast called Westways. We are in a wonderful room with a little sitting room as well. It is gorgeous. We were too tired to do much and were delighted to find that there is a wealth of restaurants right around the corner. We ended up at Earl's Kitchen. Barbara had ahi tuna and Mark had Korean wings. It was all so good, especially the tuna, but we decided we'd to again tomorrow for happy hour and more tuna.

1 September 17 was a day of misturns. We had an uneventful drive up to the Canadian border and crossed at a very small border checkpoint.   We were supposed to stay on Canada's Route 2, but, somehow (I think we were chatting too much), we missed a tour at Fort Macleod  and ended up taking Route 3 west. We didn't realize it for an entire hour. We did notice

that we were getting into the mountains which we thought was strange, but we are not familiar enough with the geography to have it really stop us. We passed a huge mountain slide called Frank's Slide and just kept going. When we passed into British Columbia we knew that something was wrong. So, we stopped in Starwood found out that we had to backtrack over 60 miles. Sigh. It added over 2 hours to our trip. But, we had no choice and tried to be positive about it.  

    So, instead of arriving around 2, we arrived around 4:30. To compound our mistake, we also went to the wrong address for the Bed and Breakfast. Turns out that there are FOUR 25th Streets in Calgary - one in each quadrant. We went to the Northeast and we should have been in the Southwest. We rang the doorbell at the wrong house and finally called the B and B. Jonathan said that he hadn't heard the doorbell. It took a little while before he realized we were in the wrong part of the city. Mark was tired from all the driving, but had no choice but to drive through the city to the correct one. (Barbara is not on the car as it cost $90 extra for a second driver.)
     On the first morning, we had a sumptuous breakfast with a wonderful man from France who gave us many tips on places to stay in Brittany. We exchanged emails and we will call him when we are in Paris next year. There was also a nice young couple from Switzerland. It is the aspect of Bed and Breakfast that we most like - chatting with people, especially from around the world.
     On our first full day in Calgary we drove to Market Mall to ask some questions about the use of the new IPad and to buy an adapter so we can download photos from the camera. We stayed for an hour lesson on use of the ICloud and it was very informative.
    In the afternoon we walked along the Elbow River and ate at Earl's Kitchen where we both had ahi tuna for an early dinner.

    On our second full day in Calgary, we had a lovely and international breakfast once again....this time with a couple from the Netherlands. We decided to walk to into town - just over 2 kilometers each way. Our destination was the Glenbow Museum where we stayed about two hours. We spent the most time in an exhibit about "mavericks" of Alberta - those who helped settle it, the railroad barons and a diverse group of people. It was very interesting. In each room, there was a placard from the First Peoples explaining their take on the various things, such as the disruption that the railroad caused them. The second exhibit we lingered in was an exhibit about the First Peoples, also very interesting. We also spent some time in an exhibit about West Africa.

   Afterwards, we went to a supermarket called Sunterra where we had a coffee, bought some coffee for David and Maura and got some sausage for our trip tomorrow.
    Then we walked back to the B &B, took a bit of a rest/read and then went to Original Joes on 4th street where we both had fish tacos and Mark also had two tiny hamburger sliders.
    On the last morning in Calgary, we had another lovely breakfast with some more international folk and then took off for Banff.