Day 7

This morning I decided to go to church before I started on my trip to Calgary. A quick google search for “Regina church” yielded a few results. I decided on Regina Apostolic Church because they had a 9:00 service, and the head pastor and his wife were named Rick and Linda. Its hard to go wrong with a team named that.

The music was both conservative and liberal at the same time. All they sang were hymns, but they were very pentecostal in how they sang them. If you don't know what that means, basically they get very into their singing. Another thing I noticed was that I was one of 5 or so people out of 200 under the age of 60. The sermon was good though!

I may have spoken too soon yesterday when I called the prairies flat. There certainly are sections of it that are very flat, but I found that soon after leaving Regina all the way into Calgary the prairies have a lot of rolling hills. Most people I think find the prairies boring because there isn't a lot on them. A lot of grass, quite a few cows, the odd grain elevator and open road. Another thing that surprised me is that there are actually quite a few trees, they just grow in groves here and there, not in forests like the rest of Canada. The Ottawa area is actually much flatter than the prairies as a whole, you just don't notice it because there are trees and buildings everywhere.

I got to Calgary after a short trip of 7 hours. It amused me when I got on the highway after church and my gps told me to remain on highway 1 for 751 km. Soon after arriving in Calgary, I had dinner with my Aunt and Uncle, after which they showed me a bit of Calgary.

The Calgary water reservoir

Tomorrow my uncle is planning on taking me to Kananaskis and Canmore and showing me some mountains and hikes. Hopefully we'll see some mountains goats and bears and the like. Provided I don't get eaten by wildlife, I shall update again tomorrow.