July 4-5, 2007
Happy Fourth of July
In the parking lot of McMahon Stadium, Calgary,AB

We arrived ay our Stampede ‘home’ (for the next week) at 10:30 a.m., fueling en route at a Safeway service station. Paid 1.025 per litre, which calculates to about $3.95 per gallon. Spent $182.00. Yipes! And worse than that, it’s tough to find a bottle of wine that won’t blind you for under $10.00 (plus 10% tax). Bring back those Mexican margaritas!

Our camp is in the parking lot of the pro-football (CFL-Calgary Stampeders) stadium. Hope to get a good picture to share, but it means getting access to the stadium. (Got it. Look here)
Heat wave today (90 degrees, but things should moderate (and get drippy) over the next couple days.

Good group dinner last night. We were sworn in as honorary Calgarians in an apparent effort to get us to buy white hats at $18.00/per. Since this will be the only time we will wear such hats, we will look for some made in China (or India) knockoffs at $10, or I’ll just go with my Mexico hat. What’s the difference between a cowboy and a vaquero, anyways?

Had a free morning today, so I snuck over to the Shaganappi Golf Course and played 9 with three Canucks I met at the course. Good chaps…so-so game. Driver is still kaput.

This afternoon features a 2 hour city tour bus-ride, followed by root-beer floats, followed by a social hour. I may be drinking wine out of a thimble.