July 7th to 9th - Calgary

July 7th - Mon - to Calgary
Not a long drive today and we watched the rodeo on TV until late again last night so we were still lazing in bed when Aunt Jessie called at 8:45.
Arrived at the RV park just after noon and the office was in a mess. Reservations, including ours, were missing from their computer system and they were scrambling to find sites for people. The first one that they gave us was just too small so they got a larger site for us. No sewer hookup so we emptied at the dump station before setting up. Had a late lunch and went exploring in town.
We were in a grocery store when we looked outside and it was pouring rain. Terry said “keep shopping”. The rain did stop soon and we headed back. There were puddles all over the RV park so it got hit with the rainstorm as well.
But it cleared and allowed us to cook a nice steak dinner on the barbeque.
We have wifi at our site for a nice change. The antenna is right beside our rig so the signal is strong. I will get my pictures posted while we are here.

July 8th - Tues - Calgary
We went to the stampede today. Terry does not like buses, trains or shuttles so we drove. We didn’t know if Wanda was taking us to the right place so we turned her off & “winged it”. Marg phoned while I was supposed to be navigating so we did a little unexpected sightseeing. But we ended up on a road that allowed parking and we had a not-too-long walk through a cemetery to the stampede grounds.
The weather was perfect - not too hot and the forecast rain did not appear. We checked online for grandstand show tickets and it appears as if we won’t able to get any. So much for Terry being sure the shows would not be full! Oh well, there are so many other good, free shows that we had a great time and will probably go again to see more.
We set up the satellite dish this evening as we only had 3 stations and we have wifi to get an updated program for the receiver. It took me longer to find coordinates than it took to find the satellites.

July 9th - Wed - Calgary
I ruined a trip to the Deerfoot Outlet Mall by having to shop for bras (this may be TMI and only really appreciated by women readers!). Actually found a couple and then checked out the rest of the mall and had lunch there.
We stumbled upon a casino on the way home and spent a couple of hours on very little money thanks to Terry’s winnings.
When we got back to the RV park we found a new rig beside us which left no room to park our truck. We are now parked in the empty site beside us and the guy who directs the parking will have to tell us where to park if someone else moves in.
I posted pictures to the internet today. Check out the last 26 pictures in 2008 #2, all of 2008 #3 and 2008 #4.