1st July to 3rd July 2012 - St Albert/Cochrane
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1st of July is Canada Day and as it was a long weekend and the weather was rather miserable, we took a drive around town and spotted these 2 wheat silos.
Tom noticed this home with the unusual garden landscape.
This lovely building is a restaurant. St Albert is apparently quite a well heeled suburb.
Monday, 2July turned out to be a brilliant day, 23 deg C. so we decided to find a golf course that was not solidly booked! We managed to get a game at the Terrae Pines Golf Course at quite a reasonable price for the two of us. We were not told the geese came with the package-what a lovely treat!
On the 5th hole, we came across several families of Canadian Geese and their goslings. It is a pretty course, however the fairways do need a lot of work. There are quite a number of water hazards, and unfortunately I gave up a ball to one of them.
This rabbit (I thought it was a hare but Tom thought otherwise) and as we could not turn him over to check, don't know if its male or female either.
It was on the 6th hole in the rough where Tom's ball had landed.
We saw Al's big brother at the RV Park - Al is 29ft long with 2 slide outs. This Alpenlite is 31ft. Another 2ft of space and 3 slide outs (drool, drool) - when your home for 3 months is on wheels...size does matter!!
What a change in the weather - we returned to the RV Park at around 4pm and we could hear thunder rumbling and the wind started picking up.
By 8pm, the sky was so ugly with ominous and forebodingly dark clouds. Tom was concerned about hail stones and I was thinking more a "Dorothy and Toto" scenario.
Luckily we only got the strong winds but not enough for a remake of the movie.
We left Edmonton at around 7.50am today, 3rd July. It was a rather chilly and grey 13deg. C. We defied the nightmare route that was the Anthony Henday Drive and managed to navigate to Hwy 2 bound for Calgary without much hassle-we ignored the GPS.
Once again it was a pretty ordinary drive with lots of ranches and acres and acres of billiard table like grass with nice juicy steaks on four legs contently chowing down. Its quite amazing the size of some of these ranches. We saw quite a few horse ranches as well.The view got better once we passed through the town of Airdrie.Lush green rolling hills and we saw a view that has become familiar to us on this trip...the Canadian Rockies in the distance.... bliss...
We are staying at the Spring Hill RV Park, Cochrane and will use it as our base into Calgary for the Calgary Stampede..yee haw!!
It has reached a "balmy" 16 deg. C and the wind is howling like a banshee.
Pulled into the parking lot of the Spring Hill RV Park to check in and who should I see... another of Al's brother. He is even bigger than the 31footer.... The Park is already quite busy with Class A Motor Homes flying the American flag..guess they are here for the Stampede as well.
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