Calgary

Everyone I told that I was going to Calgary replied, "are you going to the Stampede?" 

We had never heard of the Calgary Stampede.

We quickly learned about it.

The last few days were spent in Calgary with Kevin, Sean, and I. We were extremely tired by then and ended up doing a lot of lounging (Kevin and I were both starting school pretty quickly after). We did finally make it to the stampede because of all the hype we'd be given for it.

It turned out great. Pretty much it's a huge HUGE fair, and Lagoon, and lot's of concerts, where everyone feels the need to turn into a cowboy for the week.

I love cool tricks. I really do. So we went to all the shows. They were free. They had cool tricks. We were able to sit down. All around they were our favorite part. We saw cool motocross flips, a trampoline show, divers, a huge band, and fire dancers.

I think the highlight for everyone was actually the FootsieWootsie. They loved it, thought it was the best feeling thing ever. I thought it was really really funny, and felt super weird. We did all agree that we felt super pumped up after. We had been so tired and afterwords we all felt quite rejuvenated.

Calgary Stampede was a success!

Banff

Next stop was Banff.

Not sure if you've been here, but if you like outdoors. You really really need to go. Probably one of the prettiest mountain towns there is.

We stayed in Harry Potter's castle while we were here. Our room was real cheap, and real sweet. Seriously, it was a sweat that had a huge king bed in one room then it was really long and windy and had a pull out bed in the end of the other room. It was pretty cool.

We also watched the last Harry Potter.

We went on a great bike ride around town thanks to our hotel lending bikes.

We took the gondola up to the top of the mountain and enjoyed a beautiful view full of lots of mosquito's.

There seems to be a theme with these boys.

This may be our only group photo all trip.

Then we really enjoyed our selves with my fish-eye on the gondola ride down.

Sean won best fish-eye face.

We made lots of great faces into the fish eye.

We also played a little Frisbee in the park.

We left Banff to head back to Calgary. Once we got back to Calgary we drove back to Banff because Josh forgot his passport there. Then drove right on back to Calgary again and said adios to Josh.