Sunday, July 10, 2011

Day 11

    Today we arose at an early hour (6:00 AM) and left Glacier National Park. Our next destination was Canada! When we arrived at the border, we were surprised by the extraordinarily low security! We drove up to a gate, were asked a few questions (basically, "Are you carrying anything dangerous?"), handed over our passports, and were quickly on our way. I never had to close the book in my hand! I love Canada!
    After crossing, we drove 3 hours to Calgary (by the way, everything in Canada is in metric; the speed limit was 110 km/h: how fast were we going? [Answer in miles if you know]) where we went up into the Calgary Tower. The needle like structure is over 500 ft high and has an area at the top where the floor is glass (everyone but dad was brave enough to stand on it and look down; please give him a hard time for us).
   After Calgary Tower, we headed to the Olympic Park where the 1988 Winter Olympics were held. Kendal and I were able to take a zip line from the top of the ski jump tower <video attached>. It was epic!
    We then set out for Banff, an hour and ten minute drive, and are now established in our awesome, two room suite that will be our lodging until the end of our trip.
~Logan
P.S. For all those at Truth Baptist: How did the Tomato Festival go? Any new visitors and/or converts?
Also, our Blog should be steady for the remainder of the expedition.

The glass floor of Calgary Tower

...Fear of heights anyone?

View from the Tower of Calgary

Isengard- Nay, the ski/zip-line jump tower.

End of first zip-line... and I'm in a helmet >.<

Start of second zip-line

Banff gatehouse