When Mom Comes to Play

So a while back I made a mini-list about things I wanted to do in Southern Alberta before I move back to Calgary this April. My super awesome mom came to visit me this weekend, and helped me cross quite a few things off of the list! We of course got photo evidence of the whole shebang!

She got here Friday at around 10 and helped me finish my dishes like the doting mother she is, and then we went for lunch at the Red Dog Diner (we she enjoyed as much as I do!). Then we did some unexciting things like getting groceries. In the afternoon we went to the Galt Museum and Archives, which was so much fun! We had the whole place to ourselves, so we gallivanted around and did as we pleased. This included, making an awesome newspaper article in which I stated I would most remember “not learning Blackfoot”, as all of the Blackfoot sound recordings weren’t working. There were also awesome medieval dress up clothes that you could wear (meant for kids) but that didn’t stop me! We also played some stupid medieval game neither of us understood and I battled with a knight. After the excitement at the Galt museum, we went to find where these stupid giant tower things are by the river, but you can’t get to them. We found the road there, but it’s some business access road. I still don’t get it, why they have this ancient water tower and lookout deck but you can’t get to them. Odd!

The rest of the evening was pretty low key, we went to dinner at Montana’s with Adam and then went home bloated and watched Amnesia which wasn’t that entertaining for a show with Dennis Miller in it.

Saturday we got up early, had a delicious breakfast and headed out to do my recycling. We decided on a whim to go to Taber, as I had some things on my mini-list there. Taber is hilarious, it’s just such a little town/city with NOTHING going on at all. We saw the giant corn stalks and giant woman, and stopped at the library to ensure we’d found the giant woman and so I could use their gorgeously clean bathrooms. There were also Hutterites on the computers which my mom found funny. We saw about 100 churches and the best museum ever (which was closed) called “the Irrigation Impact Museum”. IMPACT Museum haha. I think everything except the Walmart and library was closed in that place.

Coming back from Taber we stopped at a place called Chin, thinking they had a sign we could get a picture by because it’s an awesome name for a place. They didn’t seem to have one,but they did have a giant garbage heap, I mean this thing was GIANT! It was also creepy, because it was on someone’s property and they have about 25-30 cars just crammed full of stuff, with trailers and stuff. It almost looked like a place tourists went to die… eep. And they also had a bunch of old PMQs as houses, which we found strange.

Once we got back to Lethbridge we stopped for lunch at Sam’s Donair and Hamburger for the best burger’s EVER. I want another one right now in fact. We got bloated and full, and then headed for Fort Whoop-Up. Well, we had a stop over at the wind gauge in Lethbridge on Scenic Drive. I don’t get it, but whatever. Historic point of interest or something.

Fort Whoop-Up was pretty fun, but a bit creepy. It’s only like 5 bucks a person too! You can sneak in really easily though, and most of then rooms only are accessible from one door, so you end up trapped in these smelly little rooms. There are some neat setups of western-esque rooms, with a bar, and lots of axes laying around randomly. Since no one else is there, it was sort of creepy. It was fun nonetheless. I tried roping fake cattle, got another picture with a buffalo, and saw how short people used to be. We bought candy and souvenirs, including $2 rabbit pelts (yes rabbits died so Fort Whoop-Up could make $2 a pop) for the cats at home to see if they would like them. I got a bear purse and a little white buffalo statue. After the Fort, we wandered down to the river and got some pictures, but it was too creepy for us there too, too many bushes and no one around.

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