Calgary Recommendations

Apr 06, 2004 13:43 Calgary Recommendations

Well I tried this once before so I thought I would again. Looks like I may be in Calgary in a few weeks time. What do people recommend to do/see in this city?

Apr 06, 2004 14:10 Re: Calgary Recommendations

Elvis wrote:
Well I tried this once before so I thought I would again. Looks like I may be in Calgary in a few weeks time. What do people recommend to do/see in this city?

Not neccessarily in order of excitement:
Stay in bed
Fly out on next plane
Walk up to nearest large man and exclaim how like the US it is in Canada
Drive to Rockies (only 5 hours away)
Avoid Edmonton

I actually really like Canada; I have never been to Calgary
but I imagine it is sort of like Iowa with Queen's on coins.
Or maybe like Australia with polar bears.

Apr 06, 2004 18:51

hrm, when are you going to be there? ... I might arrange to make the trip over to calgary, since its only ... 7-8 hours drive away.

Min

Apr 06, 2004 21:11

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Apr 06, 2004 22:18

whats in banff? besides some mountains ... n'such

Min

Apr 06, 2004 22:54

Elvis, you arrive at teh airport.....and you take the next flight to vancouver!

Apr 06, 2004 23:14

mountains n stuff is the whole point, I would rather see that then like......a tall statue of some ugly lady holdin a book

Apr 07, 2004 01:47

goto VICTORIA..weeee......

Apr 07, 2004 01:55

Min wrote:
whats in banff? besides some mountains ... n'such

Min

Mountains rock. I had the pleasure of hiking in Glacier National Park, which borders on Banff and the canadian border. I'll take outdoor vacations over streets, shops, and car exhaust anytime.

Apr 07, 2004 02:20

Acro wrote:

Mountains rock. I had the pleasure of hiking in Glacier National Park, which borders on Banff and the canadian border. I'll take outdoor vacations over streets, shops, and car exhaust anytime.

I know were Glacier National Park is ..... I live in the mountains, so its not really that big of a deal to me ..

Min

Apr 07, 2004 02:48

Glacier is on the border of our Waterton National Park, not Banff :) I've hiked both of them, they are an awsome sight.

Apr 07, 2004 02:55

Funny how incorrect information got seeded into my mind in 1990 and has remained incorrect until now...Is Banff at least NEAR Glacier/Waterton?

Apr 07, 2004 03:20

Madd Maxx wrote:
Elvis, you arrive at teh airport.....and you take the next flight to vancouver!

I don't think Elvis is a masochist.

Apr 07, 2004 03:28

http://www.watertoninfo.ab.ca/mapab.html
It is near, well its in the same province at least :) jsut alil more north

Apr 07, 2004 05:59

Calgarys awesome there lots to do seasonal winter theres plenty of spots to snowboard ski the moutains are cool in the summer lots of camping again mountains theres sylvan lake 1 and a half hr's northwest of calgary plenty of night clubs go karts stampede in july this city rocks
close to many oter cool places as well excluding edmonton the shit capital of canada

fr:Redefector

Apr 07, 2004 15:10

Can't say I've been to Calgary, but it reminds me of Denver. Mountain backdrop but with more cowboys.

But some sites:
http://www.tourismcalgary.com/
Looks like the sites are: Heritage Park, Glenbow Museum, Fort Calgary, Canada Olympic Park and of course RODEO!!!!! YEE HAW!

But Banff seems pretty close and you would enjoy Elvis.

http://www.calgaryattractions.com/
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~stlhe99/tour.html

Apr 07, 2004 20:56

Well Elvis, in Calgary there is the tower, symphony, au claire market, I recall going to a science center there, and the olympic park. If you want to drive out of town an hour or two you can hit the rockies in canmore, banff, jasper and lake louise. Go in the gondolas to the top and have a look down on the world, hiking is good too, the three sisters are in canmore, which I am hoping to drag min hiking up one day, since I've already done the national glacier park, but thats a ways out of the way on the rogers pass. I'm not sure when it opens, but there is also calaway park, an amusment park just outside of calgary. As min said, he would like to come visit, and I'm sure if sj comes up too, you guys will have fun :) (just don't let min talk your ear off about coding :P)

Apr 07, 2004 23:18

Does Elvis get to spank Min if he doesn't behave? If so, I'd like a video.

Apr 07, 2004 23:28

w00t! i'm goin to calgary this summer!

Apr 08, 2004 00:58

I'm surprised that travel agencies haven't "eliminated" you. They must not have heard that one, otherwise they would've gotten you out of the way to make Calgary a nice, MM-free spot.

Apr 08, 2004 01:05

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Apr 08, 2004 01:16

Baseball bats and sand... baseball bats and sand.

Apr 08, 2004 01:43

No need for that level of violence, SJ. A second frontal lobotomy should provide the necessary calming effect. :D

Apr 08, 2004 04:17

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Apr 08, 2004 05:02

Too bad it can't turn on its master a couple times.