Sundays In My City~ "Tourist Edition"

Today our family ventured into downtown Cowtown, to visit Calgary's most famous landmark!

DaddyO and i are not from Alberta originally, so this was a new experience for all of us. The Calgary Tower is by no means the largest tower out there (525ft); however, during the 1988 Calgary Olympic Winter Games, it became the World's Largest Olympic torch! Pretty neat, eh? The tower still becomes a 'torch' on Canada Day, or if our Flames race for the Stanley Cup! Oh well, at least we see it once per year--sorry Flames :( .
Coca-Cola machine~ Cowboy Style! *darn backlighting!*
Chuckleheads posing with the Black bear Mountie. These are the only safe times to see a black bear up close!

Checking out the glass floor. Beebo took some coaxing... Xman did not.
View of the Pengrowth Saddledome and Calgary Stampede grounds.

The beautiful Rockies! Did i mention we still had a chinook? Yep, boy did that tower sway! DaddyO did not like that. The glass floor was Xman's favourite--i am not sure what was going through his head exactly, but he had lots of fun jumping up and down on it...
then, just as there were a few ladies mildy 'scared' of the floor, he continued to slather himself all over it... just. like. he. was. flying!
Customary, cheesy group shot!
I tried to take a picture of the street...from standing...on the glass floor. Whoa~ slightly bad idea. Swaying tower + looking through camera lens + down + at own feet = Dizzy
On the way home, we decided to drive by Canada Olympic Park. It was a fairly warm day, so ALOT of people were out skiing. Plus, there was a World Cup Freestyle Skiing event on.
Chinook flappin' flags!
Ski Jump in the background...

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