July 10th to 12th - Calgary

July 10th - Thurs - Calgary
We waited for the office to open at 9 to check for our forwarded mail - it got here - and then went to Heritage Park Historical Village. We made it there in time for the free sausage & pancake breakfast and then spent a few hours walking & enjoying the park. It is advertised as “Canada’s Largest Living Historical Village”. One of the fun things about it is the old vehicles used by the maintenance employees in the park. There is a steam train, a steam paddle wheeler and a horse drawn wagon for rides. Most of the buildings have employees in period costumes to provide more information than the placards in front of the buildings.
Later in the afternoon a huge rain/hail storm hit Calgary again. We were driving on the freeway and both of us jumped when the first hail hit as we didn’t immediately realize what it was. Lots of vehicles with Alberta licenses (natives in the know) stopped under overpasses to let the worst of it go by but we just drove slowly. It remained cool and breezy for the rest of the day.

July 11th - Fri - Calgary
Kind of a laid back day today. Windy and cool today so not too inviting to be outside. I did some things on the computer and both of us worked Sudoku puzzles and dealt with our forwarded mail.
Our satellite signal was scrambled last night and again today. I spent some time looking around on the internet and discovered that our receiver was being phased out because repair parts are not available. Because of this, new software is not being released as quickly as for other units. We had a newer receiver that we obtained from our friend Barry so we decided to switch to it. This required some reading of manuals and downloading different programs but we finally got it to work - and new software was available for it.
We had 3 loads of laundry to do which is the same number as washers here in the park. It took us 4 trips to the laundry room before we finally found the washers empty after dinner.

July 12th - Sat - Calgary
Lovely, sunny day today so we headed back to the stampede grounds. We went fairly early so we wouldn’t have to walk too far from a parking spot and planned to have a funnel cake for breakfast. We found that the food stands weren’t open until after 10 when we finally bought a bag of little doughnuts - which were great. It was a wonderful day to wander around to spots that we hadn’t found on our previous trip and to catch different performances.
I had looked up a location for Costco on the internet but we ended up finding only a Canadian Superstore so went there instead for some baby backs and a few other groceries since we will be hitting the road on Monday.
Calgary seems to be a growing town - lots of road and house construction. The road construction causes delays so it is nice that we are not usually in any hurry.