The first day of the Calgary Stampede. One of these days I plan to go see one of the rodeos or the chuckwagon (huifkar) races. Yesterday night I saw the visitors start to pour in from the c-train, wearing cowboy hats. There will be a lot more of them soon (1 million). Adrian explains: "In every bar there will be fights, you know" - "You slept with my sister!" - "BOOM!" (pretends to punch with his fist). I'm looking forward to that, haha! :-)
Allison (who has a Canadian friend) says Alberta is like Texas: the land of oil and beef (and cowboys?)
The week starts with a parade through downtown. I was sleeping late this morning when I realized the noise outside had to be the parade passing by! So I ran outside to take some pictures:
In the afternoon I moved my suitcases and damn suit (a pain in the ass to drag around, but I'll probably need it) to my new place. After that I got back to the hostel to play some Australian football with a rugby ball. Never done this before and the other guys had to explain to me how to hold and throw the ball. But soon I was throwing hard "bullets" and they were looking like they didn't believe their eyes!
It was a fun night and now I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep in a proper bed!
I'm pretty sure a Texan would never say : "Y'know, Texas is a lot like Alberta" ;-)
ReplyDeleteNice blog bro;)! I see you're heaving a great time out of there!! it looks different from belgium if i take a look @ the few pictures, but if it looks like Nashville, you'll be quite excited, i suppose;)!
ReplyDeleteI wish you all the best today in your 'search of sunrise'...
Looking forward to your next update!!
Grtz
don Diego de La Vega ;)
PS: still over 30°C in Belgium, it's too hot to come out, what a pitty there's the 'Tour de France' on TV;)
Alberta beef is some of the best I've ever tasted in this country.
ReplyDeleteEurope of course, has better quality of meats, but unless you go to a steakhouse here in Ontario/Quebec, and pay through the nose... you can't find the same quality.
@David: true, haha!
ReplyDelete@Don Diego Etcetera: what a pity you have to watch the Tour de France! That must be so devastating to you! :P
Say hello to Katrien, and enjoy your holidays!
what's the 'new place'?
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ReplyDeletehehe, funnybunny;) i will send the message to katrien!
enjoy your day!
@Koen: it's a room I'm renting in someone's house. No fixed term. Very convenient.
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