On Friday morning, we were all ready to fly to Calgary, Canada. I was ****very**** excited as I had wanted to go to the Canadian Rockies for a long time. (Ever since I saw, “Lodges of the Canadian Rockies” in 2001 on PBS).
Our flight to Calgary went fine, we were on a very small plane, so Dennis checked his carry on when we got to the loading area.
The couple behind us were travelling up to Banff for their 5th anniversary, and they were very expressive and quite vocal in voicing their excitement. In fact, after about 15 minutes both Dennis & I were tired of listening to their banter. Lucky for him, he brought his Ipod.
We landed and went through customs (they didn’t stamp our passports!). Then we waited for about an hour for Rachel. Once she came, we got our rental car and hit the highway.
The Trans-Canada Highway turns into a normal road as it meanders through Calgary, so it took us nearly 30 minutes to get out of town. Just before the road turned into highway, we stopped for a bite to eat at Earl’s. It’s a chain, but a nice quality establishment. We were all delighted with their ice tea, it had ginger and a tad bit of mint & lemon. Tres Bien!
To top off lunch, we three shared a sundae. Yummy!
Back on the road, we passed the remains of the ski jumps from the Olympics, back in the 70s. Neat. Rachel soon dozed off. I read a little, and watched as we got closer to the rockies. (more…)
