After getting to bed at 4am and looking forward to a nice 2.5 hour sleep in a flat bed before having to get up at 6:30am a rooster started crowing at 5am….and continued. Other roosters were quick to follow his example. Who thought there would be roosters in the heart of the city? We got up at 6:30 and had breakfast at the hotel dining room at 7. Breakfast …
It was a fourteen hour flight to Shanghai on China Eastern Airlines. We had a family with two young children sitting ahead of us. One of the kids screamed and cried on and off throughout the flight. Fortunately I had taken a sleeping pill and slept through the flight, only waking to eat the three meals that were served. John also took a sleeping pill but ended up watching …
The last day of the trip was spent exploring Calgary (and shopping). We drove around downtown and checked out the Saddledome, the Calgary tower, the waterfront area and pedestrian area. We went to the Lougheed House for lunch. This house was built in the late 1800s by the grandparents of the past Alberta premier Peter Lougheed. After lunch, we toured the house. After a bit of shopping, Cheryl made …
Dinosaurs were on the menu for Tuesday. We hopped into the car and drove about 1 3/4 hours through prairies to the badlands. This area was named the badlands in the early 1900s by fur trappers because of the rugged terrain, extreme temperatures and lack of water. It’s like a desert of eroded clay spires, ridges and gullies. We stopped at a viewpoint to see the area from higher …
