Category: Calgary
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This year’s adventure to Mazatlán began on December 29 with a stay at the former Wyndham Garden Hotel. Now a Hotel 11. As always, we chose to stay at an airport hotel because the flight departs in the morning. We have stayed at this hotel several times as it has a good restaurant and is…
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Each year the Calgary Zoo transforms into a sea of Christmas lights. There are over a million lights and 250 figures. It is quite the display as seen in the shots I took. All pictures were taken on my iPhone 13.
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Discovered this park in the centre of Calgary and will share a few photos. A beautiful walk in an area surrounded by a million people.
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Was out for a stroll and had to take this shot over one of the lakes in our part of Calgary. Gorgeous colours.
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Another reason to love Calgary. Check out this forecast. Rain and plus 5c changing to an evening thunderstorm with plus 3c. Then to complete the trifecta, we have snow overnight and minus 5c. Don’t see that every day.
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Put this up on the wrong place lol
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You may remember my post on the Skaters of Seville, if not it is here. There was another reason for our interest (insert parental pride here). That is the talents of our sons as aggressive roller-blading. Basically, like doing skateboard type tricks, but on roller blades. I bring this up as our youngest popped a…
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Had a beautiful walk today. Cool, crisp and clear.
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As I noted in the earlier post, To Sail Or Not To Sail – What we Did On Our Summer Vacation, we have made the decision to explore the feasibility of retiring on a sailboat. Having made that choice, we hit the first hurdle, which is simply put as “Now What”. Our first step was…
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My sister Janice and her husband Kirk (they just retired so I’m kind of pissed at them) popped out for a quick visit with us over the Canada Day long weekend. We did a bit of sightseeing with them before they headed off south into Montana. I have decided to name this the Great Calgary…