After Waterton National Park we’ve been on the move sightseeing in many places. Cardston was fun visiting the Remington-Alberta Carriage Museum and Alberta Temple. An Indian Buffalo Jump and the Fort Macleod outpost for the North West Mountie Police was interesting. In the Canadian Badlands at Dinosaur Provincial Park we took a small shuttle bus tour into a natural preserve to discover evidence of dinosaur bones. In the visitor center lab being able to hold fossilized dinosaur poop was a first. The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller is world renowned for its fossil collection and amazing dinosaur skeleton exhibits. It is also a research facility for paleontology where you can observe diggings and scientists at work in the lab prepping and piecing dinosaur skeletons together that were found in the Alberta Badlands. Calgary was our first big city and a bit of a disappointment due to insane streets that are difficult to discern how to maneuver around. Torrential rainy weather compounded the matter even more as JR came down sick with a nasty cold and cough. A day spent downtown at The Glenbow Museum proved to be the city’s real highlight. Onward we go for a week to the Canadian Rocky National Parks of Banff and Jasper through the Ice Field Parkway in between.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Zig Zagging Across Southwest Alberta
After Waterton National Park we’ve been on the move sightseeing in many places. Cardston was fun visiting the Remington-Alberta Carriage Museum and Alberta Temple. An Indian Buffalo Jump and the Fort Macleod outpost for the North West Mountie Police was interesting. In the Canadian Badlands at Dinosaur Provincial Park we took a small shuttle bus tour into a natural preserve to discover evidence of dinosaur bones. In the visitor center lab being able to hold fossilized dinosaur poop was a first. The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller is world renowned for its fossil collection and amazing dinosaur skeleton exhibits. It is also a research facility for paleontology where you can observe diggings and scientists at work in the lab prepping and piecing dinosaur skeletons together that were found in the Alberta Badlands. Calgary was our first big city and a bit of a disappointment due to insane streets that are difficult to discern how to maneuver around. Torrential rainy weather compounded the matter even more as JR came down sick with a nasty cold and cough. A day spent downtown at The Glenbow Museum proved to be the city’s real highlight. Onward we go for a week to the Canadian Rocky National Parks of Banff and Jasper through the Ice Field Parkway in between.