Crossed off – Remington Carriage Museum (and some other adventures)

So my lovah-lovah Adam planned a nice and semi-surprise trip for me on Sunday. It combined both my giant list and some of the mini-list for southern Alberta that I made a while back.

We made our way down to the Remington Carriage Museum, which is located in Cardston, quite near to the US/Canada border. The drive was quite nice, though it was a particularly shitty day out. We arrived at the museum around noon, and found there to be a quite expensive admission fee

($18 for us both – NO CARRIAGE RIDE INCLUDED!!) The museum itself is pretty boring, which is actually why I put it on my list. I wanted to completely mock it. But Adam was so totally into it, reading every sign and getting into it. It’s a bunch of old carriages! Jesus. It was fun though, and some of the carriages were nice to look at.

I totally feel gypped about the carriage ride though. After the museum, we ate some lunch in the car (so ghetto, but so fun), and then headed westward towards Waterton Lakes National Park. Let me tell you, the road between Cardston and Waterton Park is effin’ creepy. It just seems like a place tourists go to die. We did not end up stopping in Waterton since it was snowing and we couldn’t even tell if it was open or not.

There were nice views, despite the clouds, and we even saw some deer and a female elk hanging out. They were really close to the road, so we slowed down for both safety and gawking purposes. We also saw bunny tracks with was SUPER cute, as Adam is a huge fan of bunnies and rabbits and such things. After that we drove through Twin Butte, but the sign wasn’t big enough to warrant stopping to get a picture. So we drove right on through. I’m surprised by the amount of Butte places in Alberta and Montana. Seems every other town is named “Picture Butte” “Twin Butte” “Butte” or some other variation of a description ass.

There was one sign that did require a turn around. Spread Eagle Road. Priceless and then some. I of course, got out of the car in the foot of snow that was drifted around this farm’s driveway to get a picture. I was super excited about it, let me tell you what.

We then made our way to Pincher Creek, to get a picture with their giant pinchers, which I just find too hilarious for words. Seriously. Giant pinchers. They also had a “Hoe Hardware” which I hope to god sells sex toys.

Then we headed home, and onto thesurprise event which I will blog about later on.

I leave for Ontario tomorrow night, so there will be a lot to talk about. I crossed another thing off my list (not a surprise, it is listed under Completed if you need to know, but I will be making a blog entry about it. I also have my march book reviews coming up. Too much going on!!

Check out my photobucket for all of the pictures from the day.