The Adventures in Edwards' CedarCreek! : Alberta here we come!

After a fantastic visit with Uncle Joe and Sandra we headed off Friday morning, June 10 to Cochrane Alberta. Cochrane is where Al's sister Gwen, Jeff and Makana Hilton live. Al booked us into the Bows River Edge Campground for 1 week. This campground fills up really fast, quite popular. So if you plan on being in Alberta book early.

The sites for the most part were pull through. Excellent maintenance. As soon as a camper left the staff came by and cleaned the site and raked the gravel so that it appeared no one had used it. Campers, 5th wheels, big busses from everywhere came in. Some repeat customers, some testing it out to see if they wanted to come back for a month next year. Quite a few of the people Al talked to were full time RVers. (I can't imagine it, but a lot do this)

Randi and Callum had flown in the day before. They were staying with the Hilton's for a week. We all had so much fun visiting and sightseeing. On the Saturday the girls went to the Banff Springs Hotel and spent the afternoon in the spa. (A fantastic Mother's day gift!!) The boys--Al, Jeff and Callum toured doing guy stuff. Callum was an excellent baby chilling at their stops. Al and Jeff were able to speak to some operators at an Electric station.

On the Sunday we took off to Spruce Meadows via a fruit market where we picked up our supper of cabbage rolls for the night. Authentic Ukrainian. yum. Then off to the Spruce we went. There was an international competition going on. We watched about 4 jumpers then decided to tour the grounds themselves. So much going on. What a great facility Mak! Mak and her horse Hudson are Equestrian competitors---now doing cross country.

At supper that night, Heather McNair Chisolm joined us. A cousin from New Brunswick living in Calgary! Great evening with family! Good time to visit one on one and catch up on what everyone is doing.

The little town of Cochrane has some unique stores so we all went shopping there. Bought a few souvenirs.......

Monday, the Hiltons are all back at work so Al drove the rest of us up to Lake Louise to see the hotel and lake, then back down to Banff to do some souvenir shopping as well.

The trip to Banff is spectacular --- can one tire from the scene of the mountains?? No. We didn't see wildlife on this trip but did see bridges made for the wildlife to go over. I have pasted a picture of it below.

Wednesday Randi and Callum flew back home. On Thursday Al and I left for Rosetown, Saskatchewan. This would be our turn heading back home.