Calgary

When Lee got back from his trip we got a call to say that our boxes had arrived in Canada and that we needed to go to Customs in Calgary to get them released for delivery. Since we knew Lee was on Orientation this week and not in the classroom until Tuesday we decided to head over to Calgary on Sunday and have the day there, stay over and come home Monday.



Since we were still car hunting we decided to check some out over Calgary way as there seemed to be more available.... so we checked out Auto Trader and Kijiji and headed down Sunday morning. since it was Sunday we were able to check the cars out and note which we would like to look at again on Monday. I must say that shopping for a car here is a very different experience to back home. Here the salesman ask if you need help, give you the keys and leave you to look around the car..... no pressure.

It was also Calgary Stampede the same weekend so we headed there on Sunday evening. The stampede is an annual event in Calgary that lasts for the week there are lots of Rodeo events and competitions, Concerts - Bon Jovi was playing on the Wednesday - I bet that was an amazing night. There is also a funfair and lots of food stalls and a couple of beer tents.



Monday morning we headed over to Customs to get our boxes cleared. We had to sign a declaration regarding the contents of the boxes. Once we had the release form we headed to UPS to hand this in and arrange delivery. Our boxes finally arrived on Wednesday its nice to have not only all of our clothes but having some of our personal stuff certainly makes the house feel like home.

Once the necessaries had been completed we went back to a couple of places to look at cars. As we drove through the city a storm begin to gather..... you could literally see the black rain clouds descend. and then it went pitch black and the rain started. It was coming down really heavy and then it turned to hail and we could barely see to drive ....



When the rain had calmed down we headed over to the garage to see the car we had looked at the previous day, it had been totally ruined by the storm. All of the cars on their lot had loads of dents all over them where they had been pelted by these huge hail stones, some had broken windscreens too !! We also heard that on the other side of Calgary they were on Tornado alert !!

Enough excitement for one day we did a quick trip to Ikea we headed home. The storm decided to follow us all the way back to Lethbridge luckily for us this time it was just really heavy rain then the sun would break through until it caught us back up !!