Alaskan Adventures 2014 with Rich & Mary

Happy Father's Day! Hope you fathers had a special day. We have been in Calgary since Wednesday. This is quite an amazing city to be in. The hills and the valleys are unbelievable. You can see for a long way when you're up on the hills. The amount of houses on the hills is something to see. We are visiting our Nephew Tim and family. They have been wonderful hosts for this uncle and aunt. They took us downtown Calgary on Saturday to see it up close. It is a beautiful place. The city is so clean and some of the buildings are really unique. We loved going to Prince's Island Park and spending some time watching the ducks and geese with their babies. Such a nice place in the middle of the city. We also got to check out where Calgary Stampede is held. Last year, three weeks before the Stampede, the town was hit with a flood that covered much of the town and all over the area where the Stampede is held. Calgary did a super hero's job of cleaning up the damage of the flood and still had the Stampede activities. We had a great time seeing this area and actually driving into the middle of the arena where the chuckwagon race is held! Couldn't do that around July 7!   

Feeding the geese on Prince's Island

 We stayed in a very nice campground by Cochran, Alberta, called Bow Riversedge just outside of Calgary along the Bow River. The kids loved playing on the playground and we enjoyed a nice walk along the river. The Bow River flows through the middle of Calgary and it is this river that flooded the area last year.  

  We are on our way tomorrow to travel up to Banff. We are hoping that the weather is a bit better than today. It has been cold and rainy today with the forecast prediction for tomorrow and Tuesday being cloudy with showers and around 50 degrees F. Not the best for site seeing, but we'll enjoy it the best we can.