Accounts of living in Yellowknife (a work in progress, this site and my life)

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Calgary

Here's some pics from the Easter weekend 5day Calgary vacation from Yellowknife. 40 hours of driving and a couple days in the City are hopefully enough to make yellowknife seem that much bigger and less monotonous. The long awaited Calgary pictures area below for those of you who have yet to see them.

The NWT Highway No. 3.


Left after work on the thursday and arrived in High Level, AB at 1:33 AM. Stayed at the Flamingo Inn. This 5-star resort was lovely.


Janice and Mark. According to Janice's smile the back is pretty comfortable, though I wouldnt know as I managed to avoid it pretty well.

Big friggin beaver tail pancake breakfast.

After High Level there was Peace River. Cool place with a river built on a flood plain, lots of dirt roads in town and the Moon Saloon/Liquor store.
Stayed with Jesse - friend from high school. His townhouse is at the end of the walk here. This is margaret. She got tired of sitting in the back of Mark's truck and got her own car. It went pretty good.


There is a mall downtown calgary with a City park on the 4th floor.

This is the Dim Sum that defeated me. May it live on forever in my tummy.
This lady made me 100 frozen dumplings for $15. It was too warm on the way back so they solidified into 2 really really big dumplings in their bags while sitting in the back of the truck.
Went to infamous the infamous Cowboys bar on saturday night.
After Cowboys Jesse tried to inhale a sausage and almost had his eyes pop out.

Got tired of walking so we rented a limo.

Mark got tired of not hanging his ass out of the limo window and hung his ass out the limo window.

Goodbye Calgary.
Next stop Mayorthorpe. Pretty wicked place really.
I especially liked the part where it was sort of out of a horror movie.
This place served wicked chinese food with a side of heartburn.
Stopped at the Alexandria Falls near Enterprise.
More like poo falls.
Crossing the ice road on the mackenzie was fun. It closed the friday after we got back and as we were crossing it there was about a foot of overflow and slush.

Then the long and boring drive back to Yellowknife where spring has finally started to warm things up and the sun is shining - bring on the summer.

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

My last month has been awesome. How about yours? Oh that's right, you never talk to us anymore.

Bedtime for overworked planners...

7:42 PM

 
Blogger Roman Soiko said...

So you're a Yellowknifer?

Life looks great up there, especially with the booming Canadian dollar, (groan, wink,groan). ME AMERICAN.

I always wanted to live in your fair city, how's life up in the North?

4:44 PM

 

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