Day 6 Calgary area

Day 6 was a no travel day.  We had to pick up Cathy at the Calgary airport at 1:30 PM, so we used the morning to do chores.  We took showers, and did a couple loads of laundry.  I took the truck to the car wash and spent $12.00.  It was $1.00 per minute.  Back at the campground, I got out the long handle brush and a bucket of water and scrubbed the dead bugs off the front of the camper.  It looks a lot better now.

At Noon we headed to the airport, and on the way realized that Cathy would have to pick up her luggage and then go through Customs.  We were going to be real early, and we were hungry, so we stopped at A&W and had a burger and Root Beer.  When we got to the Airport, we still waited about 30 minutes before she came out.

With our task for the day completed, we thought we would go to the Heritage Park Historical Village.  It is a collection of old building they had moved onto the site from Calgary and surrounding  towns.  You could go into each building and they would have it filled with period furniture and a person dressed in period clothing that would talk to you like they were suppose to be there and it was that time period.  It was pretty cool.  One of the building was a Billiards Parlor with real snooker tables.  They were 6 foot by 12 foot.  I have never seen one before.  They are huge, and the pockets are small and so are the balls.

Most of the buildings also had old pictures on the walls of the building in it's original location.  One of the buildings was a collection of old cars and trucks.  It also had over 40 different old gas pumps that were all restored to better than new.

The bad part is I did not bring my camera, and Mom's batteries went dead soon after we got there, so we missed out on sharing a lot of it.  But trust me, it was cool.

Cathy was pretty tired after her flight, so we headed back to the campground, ate supper and called it a great day.

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