Tallest tepee in the world

Medicine Hat Alberta 

Here's an example of the public art by the First Nations People. Really beautiful pictures are at the bottom of the tepee (example below).

We had to stop in Medicine Hat just to say we'd be to Medicine Hat, Alberta!

Plains Cree

Plains Cree Way of Life 

I photographed this one because it mentions beads and I like beading.

Near the tepee

No explanation 

There was no information about this in the area, but look at the detail and you see obviously it took a lot of effort. I wonder if it's a dream woman taking a younger girl into a dreamland.

Chuckwagon races 

Chuckwagon races

The Calgary Stampede 

We went to the Stampede on my 46th birthday. It was such fun! The whole city, and Calgary is a big city, gets into it.

The chuck wagon races at Calgary 

Red berries by the trail

Red berries by the trail

These are right next to a nature trail. These are berries that bears fancy and like to eat. I was uncomfortable, but there we other hikers, bikers, and even a camp interpreter (you know, the people who give the campfire talks in the evening) went by us on her day off.

So we finish our walk, eat a picnic lunch and get the the car and someone says, you may not want to take the trail right now because a bear has been sighted on the trail. Duh. We had just finished our hike. I'm sure glad we missed the bear.

Not long thereafter I asked my husband to please take me out of bear country. All the way out. I find bears worrisome. They're unpredictable. My husband makes fun of me, but he took me out of bear country the next day. I need a rest from bears and I need some sunshine. I've realized I cannot live in Alaska, and maybe not even in Canada. I gotta have sun!

Elk in Jasper Park, Alberta, Canada

Elk in Jasper Park, Alberta, Canada 

So after Alaska we went to Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. It was beautiful. We had some sunshine but some clouds too. The elk just wander around the park. It's like heaven.

Welcome to Alberta

The adventure begins. We made it to Canada! We would have been the very first ones there, but there were four people in line ahead of us.