Saturday

Well, here it is Saturday. We had a busy day seeing the Calgary Stampede. It was just like the ones you see on TV. Bucking broncos, barrel racing, bull riding and more. Yesterday (Friday) we watched the Stampede parade in downtown Calgary. It lasted two hours, thank goodness we had reserved seating. After the parade we visited Heritage Park, a quaint town set in the 1910's. Hopefully I can upload some pictures. Tomorrow (Sunday) we spend the whole day at the Stampede. They have shirts that say "Stampede 101 come hell or high water".High Water is a town just outside of Calgary that was flooded a ;little more than two weeks ago. The shirts will help raise money for the rebuilding. So far they've sold 100,000 shirts at $20 each. Of couse we bought two.We leave the campground at 10:30 AM and return at 12:30 AM Monday morning. Talk about a long day. We then leave later Monday for Banff where we only have electric hook up. We will spend two days there before moving on to the Columbia Ice Fields. We won't have any hook ups there. We will be in a parking lot and can run our generator some. There isn't internet in either of these two stops, so I will have to make it up when we get to Hinton. It is 9:45 PM and the sun is still shining.

 This is a picture of some of the flood relief workers.

 Mounties

 Heritage Park entrance sugn

 Heritage train

Old GasPumps