Pictures from Calgary

It has been almost a week since WiFi has been available---so I will try to catch up with what has taken place over the last few days.  In my last post I told you how we had gone to the Olympic area in Calgary.

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These were two pictures of the ski jump at the center.  You could not get up into it, but I took the shot standing right next to it looking down the hill.  I really find it hard to think that people willingly jump off this thing.  You would have to start doing this as a very young child before you knew what you were doing and then......

As this picture shows there are four jumps of different heights - 90 meters, 70 meters and two shorter ones.  The information we found at the site indicates that there are actually more jumps made during the summer than during the winter.  They have some way of wetting down the artificial turf that makes it just like snow.

We stayed in the small town of Cochrane, Alberta just west of Calgary and this is the view from the town's main street.


We also attended an official professional bull riding contest that was held right next to the RV Park we stayed in.  It wasn't the 'offical' Calgary Stampede but it was as close as you get in May.