Purduettes Canadian Tour: Day Four
Thursday, May 18, 2006
New Pictures!
We visited the famous hot springs in Banff, which was very relaxing, and we surprised the other visitors with a few songs! We also took gondola rides up the mountainside and took in the fabulous view from the top. Then we loaded the bus for Calgary, the New West of Canada. We had dinner at the Ranchman’s, an authentic honky-tonk complete with live music and a mechanical bull, which a few of us were brave enough to ride (don’t you wish you could see pictures?)! We were all made honorary citizens of Calgary and were each presented with a white cowboy hat, which is the city’s symbol of hospitality. We sang the Canadian national anthem and a few of our other songs for the other guests and did some line dancing out on the dance floor. At the end of the evening, we were corralled back onto the bus so we could rest up for another exciting day.
At the Hot Springs museum, the boilermakers find a train.
We had to look hard to see the tiny snails that inhabit the hot springs and are a highly endangered species.
The view from the gondolas was amazing!
Bathing Boilermaker beauties relax in the hot springs of Banff.
Some of the ladies model swim suits from the 1920s, the hayday of the hot springs.
The Saddledome, home to the annual Calgary Stampede and the Calgary Roughnecks, Canada’s championship-winning lacrosse team.
A mural downtown depicts the history of the Stampede.
This indoor sports facility was built for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. Ice-skating events were held in this arena, which is flooded for skating sports and drained for other events such as volleyball.
At the Ranchman, we learned about the white cowboy hat, Calgary’s symbol of hospitality.
The newest honorary citizens of Calgary.
Laura Malnar and Beth Gentry, the new Purduette managers, try on their new hats.
The Purduettes invade the dance floor for some line dancing.
Tony Gillund tries out the mechanical bull.
Lauren Worth takes her turn at the bull.
Kelly Bouwman tries not to be thrown by the bull.
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