Day 17 - July 26, 2010 11:59 PM

July 26, 2010
11:59 PM

Calgary cruising.

We got up around 8:00 packed up and decided to visit the Calgary zoo before moving on. We spent 45 minutes in the car trying to find a drive through breakfast place. This was to save time. It would probably been quicker just to go in and order.

We got to the zoo about 10:30 AM. It is a very large zoo and took around 15 minutes to walk from the parking lot into the zoo proper. We visited most of the key exhibits including the elephants and giraffes.

We left the zoo about 1:30 and stopped to buy some water and moved onward to Drumheller. Every business seems to have adopted the dinosaur theme including a restaurant called "Fred and Barney's". There were many statues of various dinosaurs throughout the town.

We spent about an hour and a half at the Royal Tyrrell museum. The kids found it quite interesting to see what various modern day animals had evolved from.

We then visited the hoodoos. There were much smaller than the hoodoos that D and I had previously visited in Montana. The boys climbed among the hoodoos for pictures and S found a few caves.

Back in the car with the idea of going a few more miles. We finally decided to stop at Medicine Hat about 8:30 PM. Everyone went for a swim until 10:00 PM while I set up the room.

Once again it was difficult to find a place to eat at 10:30 PM so we ended up at a 24-hour restaurant called Humpty's.
Since this was the last night before we plan to arrive home, we held our awards ceremony. Various awards were presented to each other to recognize various aspects of the trip.

Back to the room for the final sleep on the road.