Wow well we’ve had an energetic day! Rather than heading for the Calgary Highland games we headed for a walk along the elbow river and onto a place called Heritage Park. The Elbow River walkway is very much like the nicer bits of the Water of Leith and then some. The initial parts are very much walking through residential areas until you get further out into the suburbs where the river path is lined by some really nice houses all with private river access. A lot of the houses are very Colonial in style all large plots averaging 3 floors most with at least 2 doubles garages and heated paths and driveways. Price wise we think they were starting at around $600,000 Canadian Dollars for a 5 bed all ensuite, it’ll be interesting to compare this with Vancouver as it’s supposed to be a lot more cosmopolitin and more pricey. After walking about 12km we got to Heritage Park which is like a larger Canadian version of Beamish. As well as all the shop front replicas they were a few rides and attractions we ended up on the steam train, paddle boat steamer and the horse and carriage. It was well worth the money and a popular place for local families.
Needless to say our feet were aching by this point so it was a bus and train back to the hotel as we couldn’t face the 12km walk back! We’d also booked tea for 8 at Milestones where we were on Thursday so we had to watch our time.
Once rested, showered and changed we headed across the pathway for tea, it had started raining by this point so it was just as well we didn’t have far to go. We were slightly more restrained with the cocktails and rather than get a pitcher I had a few raspberry mojitos (which as it turns out would have been cheaper to buy a pitcher) and Chris had a couple of tropical concoctions. My tea was lovely - butternut squash ravioli, and Chris had meatloaf but something spicy in or on it made it slightly inedible for him.
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