21 July 2013 ~ Calgary ~ Part I

Listening to: Phil Lesh & Friends ~ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall ~ Red Rocks, Morrison, CO


I had the opportunity to go Calgary last week for work. Arrived on Sunday afternoon early enough to walk around a bit.

I stayed at the Sheraton Suites - Eau Claire.

The event "Stampede" had just ended its two-week run. So the hotel lobby was still decorated.

Stampede is a big rodeo event. The show almost didn't go on because Calgary was completely flooded just prior. The theme of the event became "Come Hell or High Water" - and t-shirts abound with this message. Some of my customer's team members had their houses destroyed in the flooding. Amazingly the downtown recovered, but some hotels still were closed due to flooding repairs. They flew in 450 Americans to help with the Stampede grounds clean up.

I came across this windmill in a nearby park overlooking a children's swimming wading pool. The weather was quite nice, high 70s.

The 1886 Buffalo Café finds its home in an over 100 years old building, and was the home of the Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber Company, which was founded by Peter A. Prince - a famous Calgary architect who built Calgary's first sky scraper . Prince's Island is named after him.

It's only open for breakfast and lunch, so I missed it the change to eat there.