Conquered Calgary

Aloha!

It's currently 9:33 p.m. and I'm writing to you from a place I've written to you before. The floors in this room are made of multi-coloured concrete and I'm sitting under a horrible fluorescent ceiling light as the sound of churning water is echoing in a machine from the 1970s...Debi Kee, I think YOU will be able to guess ;)

Oh yes, we're back in the laundry room of the Ramada hotel in Edmonton, Alberta! Hard to believe, but we're halfway done cross-canada adventure 2.0, which means that our shirts and shorts are in need of a good ol' sudsy attack of detergent.

As my underwear spins, let me tell you about the past week's adventures in Calgary!

It was a rather blustery week of cowboys and stetsons in the Wild Rose Country, and Mike, Josh, Melissa, Victor and myself spent a good 6 days in the Country Inn and Suites. We were spoiled with a pool fit for water polo, and a hot tub as hot as our BBQ hot and spicy deli chicken. We has access to free cookies and waffles all the live long days, and we even a day off to enjoy the sight, sounds, tastes and smells of the Calgary Stampede! But in between the drives to downtown and tanning on the roof of our Showtruck, we had 3 events that left definitely left Calgary wanting more.

We started at a Co-op grocery store, where both regular customers and the head office employees had the chance to try a wrap, a dog, or 5 of each, if they so desired.

The grills didn't stop there.

The 5 of us ventured to the Safeway head office to bust some wraps again, but also cook up somee of the NEW Halal beef burgers! Taste buds, meat your maker. These babies had the crowd hooked!


The 3-day chicken extravanganza ended with a Halal event at the Calgary Islamic Centre. The morning started off slower than we expected, but the smooth rhythm of Saturday morning turned into a rapid-fire wrap fest as we served a line longer than Frank Palermo's hair in the 80s!



We were done early afternoon. We took a nap. We went downtown.

But the next day, Victor and I drove 2 hours back into the mountains and saw something even more breathtaking than city lights at night.

OHHHH the beautiful majesty of Lake Louise on a Sunday afternoon!

And now, here I sit, not on a rocky ledge, but a velvet couch in Edmonton. Tomorrow is a day off, and although I'm currently in the business of SAVING mula, I think the West Edmonton Mall is deserving of a few spare dollars ;)

The adventure continues! And this round, we've got clean socks!