1. Starting off on our Downtown Calgary tour: Sybille and Adriana on Stephen Avenue Mall; the view looks East.2. The Busker gets an audience!3. Agent Sybille closing a possible contract.4. Auditioning to join a Calgary band ... The Irish Rovers maybe?5. Trying to make me jalous. …6. The bottom of Calgary's newest 'skyscraper 'The Bow',shaped like a bow and named after the Bow river.7. The car that was moving as my friend crossed.8. Looking out from within the wired sculpture, a sky god appears to watch over Calagry's activities. 9. View from the second floor of the Bow building.10. Calgary's tall light masts competing with the office towers. Here 'Eighth Avenue Place', where the old 'Penny Lane' shops used to be. 11. Fifth Street passes under the CPR tracks, which connect Calgary across the country east and west.12. Adriana descends into the Horshoe Canyon.13. A pose with a treasured travel companion.14. The same, but a wide angle showing the Canyons expanse relative to the human figure.15. Back up and out.16. My travel company, Adriana and Sybille.17. Now inside the Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, we are ready for a journey into the past.18. As usual, the ladies lead the way and I follow;)!19. Will a Mentos mint match its sweet tooth?20. I'm glad it's dead!21. The coal miner's suspension bridge at Rosedale; see also my Daily Entry of 2013-10-02 on this site. 22. Sybille and Adriana on the Rosedale suspension bridge!23. Fearless Sybille and yours truly pretending confidence in a state of suspension.24. Looking east over the Red Deer river from the foot bridge.25. Looking back to where we came from.26. Sybille and I wave at Adriana who has ascended to higher regions on the river's North shore.27. The view towards the west.28. The full span of the foot bridge, once for coal miners and now for the tourists connecting us with our heritage.29. Imaging beauty, two of differing kind.30. View from on high, but on solid ground.31. Looking west with the bridge's stay cables in the foregound and the old wooden coal mining structure at the top right.32. The captain of the Hoodoos, leaning in the … wind? Note the walk way structures that visitors now have to use.33. More Hoodoos.34. It takes several views to caprure the sense of the whole collection.35. The Captain36. Sybille on the way to the car.37. Meditating on top of an old cap stone.38. A measure of the landscape's scale.39. A shrunken hoodoo with some cap stone remants.40. Hoodoo's ends.41. Solitary soldier42. A Saloon that lasted … for one hundred years! But, look what happened to the guy who didn't tip!43. Who's match is met here?44. The interior of the Last Chance Saloon reveals its long and varied history. 45. Presenting the latest member of the 'Last Chance Band'!46. The road to Wayne's 'Last Chance Saloon' is paved with wooden planks.47. Leaving Drumheller's 'Bad Lands', we travel …48. …to a hoped for dinner destination in Rosebud.49. Once there, we locate one place with lights on and cars parked upfront, warranting a closer but hesitant look.50. 'The Thorny Rose' interior looks inviting, with customers on hand.51. Our owner hostess soon locates us at the first choice table and we're convinced.52. With wine poured and food served, followed with cheers and "gu~te", we start on our delightful dinner closing off a day full of surprises in fine company.
When leaving, the sun has set and we drive 'home' on the dark rural roads until we reach the Trans Canada, taking us back to Calgary.
