Today is Canada Day. That means, among other things, that just about everyone in town has the day off including Peter. We started out the day with a walk. Peter's condo is in the buildings on the far right side of the picture so that will give you an idea of how far we walked. Hopefully you can also tell that we changed elevation a little as well. We left the condo, crossed onto the island, traversed the island, crossed the river on the other side and then walked up about 14 flights of stairs to McHugh Bluff. The view was well worth it. That whole process took about 45 minutes. We took is very slowly up the stairs. It was about 50 degrees and very breezy when we started our walk. On the way back to the condo we found a little coffee shop and I had a great extra hot latte.
Back to the island. I have mentioned Prince's Island before. It is the small island behind Peter's condo. For Canada Day the island was the center of Calgary's celebration with many thousands of people visiting this area of town. There were three stages with different venues and countless vendors selling everything from Jamaican meat pies to Peruvian finger puppets. The only thing that we tried were the mini donuts. We had seen them at the Farmer's Market but had never tried them. They were little hot donuts sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. They were a nice treat.
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