Bailey

These guys were a lot more fluffy the last time we were here                    

The cows! 

Allan checking out, his favourite, the donkey

     Cap the evening with a game of Uno

 

 

Why are we going when this is the summer to tour Alberta??  Because, we didn’t realize that Allan’s drivers licence expires this year on his birthday!  In BC your health care, a separate card, expires at the same time.  You can call to have that extended but no licence extension is available.

Our next Alberta stop will be taking us further from BC so 2 hour road trip it is to get the renewal.

It’ s a beautiful day for a scenic drive through the Rockies.  In no time, we’re in back in BCNext stop   

Licence & health card renewal town.  Yahoo, no one in line, it went very smooth and quick.  What we didn’t know is they take the physical card and give you a piece of paper that expires in September.

Sparwood is a mining town, along with that their attraction is a monster, monster truck!

                                          Allan is so TINY!

Allan loves his Faxe Amber beer, Alberta does not.  As we are in Sparwood we check BC Liquor who do carry it but no, none here.  Ferine is a further 20m drive, they report

Our tour of Sparwood complete, yes, Fernie here we are

First a tour of Fernie, it is a cute town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hit BC Liquor, the result..Well done Allan!

Next a visit to Fernie Brewery.  Allan finding another red he likes, Caboose Red.

Back we go.  We’ve driven by Frank Slide a few times, this time I googled the story

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Final stop before home  Run Rummer Pub

All today’s missions completed.  EXCEPT poor Bob ended up with 4 windshield chips.  Totally crazy here.

It was fun here, but happy to leave.  The 50amp power was great but we were instructed to not use the grass area as they had just seeded.  Nope, couldn’t see any seeds.  That is why the firepit was behind Bailey, we were just happy to have fires.

The Drumheller area is home to these yellow fields, google tells us it’s canola

Driving we go.. Oh good a single lane, 4.4mh bridge, we’re good with that but 27tons – how much do we weigh? Drive fast!

The rest of the drive was uneventful, we’re now back in Lethbridge

It’s Sunday, time to go to church 🙂 Drumheller Little Church seats 6! It has an interesting history, click here to read more

Next adventure! Hiking across the street from our park in Horseshoe Canyon, from above in the Badlands. What are the badlands?? “The badlands were named by early French explorers who termed their steep-sloped mesas (flat-topped mountains) and deep, winding gullies as “bad lands to cross.”

Down we go! 146 steps. Downs mean ups are coming grrr

Was a little challenging making it up here but so worth it

Yep, it’s that time… Grow the photo to see the cactus in the background

We made it back up all those stairs!!

Tomorrow we bid farewell to Drumheller.

Our last fire for a month

Drumheller has been fun, for now though, it is not on our must repeat list.

Today we got intimate with “Tyra”, The World’s Largest Dinosaur  For $5/person you enter her bowels!

The view from Tyra’s mouth!

For certain 106 steps deserves a reward!!

From the ground

Tyra’s stats:

Conceived:  October 02, 1999 Born:    October 06, 2000

• 86 ft (25 meters) tall
• 106 stairs to climb to the top
• 12 People can fit in the mouth at a time
• 4.5 times bigger than a real T-Rex
• 151 feet (meters) long
• 65 tonnes (145,000 lbs) in weight
• She cost $1,065,000.00 to build

On Tuesday we explored the outdoor grounds, today in we go! We wanted to do just one museum and many have said the Royal Tyrrell is the one to visit.

I do not have words for each photo so here it comes! A bombardment of photos

Such an interesting museum. Lots of reading, not so much walking so we leave and go to a trail. North Drumheller trail, we have to walk 1/2h one way to obtain our 10k steps.

We are off to see the dinosaurs!

We are going to walk the trail but first the lookout

The sites…

My new passion! Cacti!

Up close and personal!

Back at the campsite, this is kind of redneck mobile firepit

Fire time!

Then this rolls in

Travel day from Gas City RV, Medicine Hat to Horseshoe Canyon Campsite, Drumheller.

Checking in, they have a new section with 50amp but no trees. We’ll take it…

Bonus, we or at I didn’t realize. Across the street is Horseshoe Canyon

July 4th – raining raining raining… Let’s make the best of it

Had many recommendations to go to Last Chance Saloon so we head there on this rainy day. Established in 1913, it’s really old, this is where the miners came for a shot.

Cool place but no room for us. They have several large groups coming in. We crossed 9 bridges to get here, oh well at least we got to see it.

Can’t get a beer at the Last Chance Saloon, we bounce back quick and head to the Valley Brewery

Hoping for a no rain Tuesday!

We’ve been admiring the rolling hills and dreading the day we decide to walk them. Still aren’t fans of ups and there are many.

We walk around the park and discover we need more steps to reach our 10k daily. Turns out today is, therefore the dreaded day.

We did not know there were cacti anywhere in Canada, but here they are.

Twisty, turny, beautiful countryside

This is the view of the shed from Bailey. Follow the yellow arrows. Was quite a hike!

Never have we ever seen something like this before

Morning adventure

Mr. Cucumber here we are!

The sales are on an honour basis.  You select your goodies and pay in the locked box.  We scrambled to make the correct change, they take cash only.  We don’t carry much cash, luckily, we do have a change wallet in Bob that came to the rescue.

Our haul!!  All for $8.50 🙂Tip! (just learned tip):  To ripen tomatoes place in a warm spot in a paper bag.  Worked!!

Afternoon adventure

We each select our flight beers!

We liked all but one of the beers, Allan’s favourite remains the red.  This one named     Midday Mariachi       

End the day with a blazing fire