News from one action packed Thanksgiving weekend
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Monday, October 9, 2006 is Thanksgiving in Canada. It's strange cos I would've expected Thanksgiving to fall at the same time as American Thanksgiving, which is the last Thursday in November, if I'm not mistaken. So there goes that plan to visit G Man in November...
This is our second weekend here, and now that we're settled and know what is what, we decided to do as much as possible while the weather is still half warm.
Friday, October 6, 2006
We were planning to hit Whiskeys, which apparently is the latest and greatest club downtown, when the guy who sold us our cellphones reckoned we should spend our evening at the French Maid (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). We obviously cottoned onto what he was getting at, but Googled it, just to do some research.
Girly bars are totally different from Teazers in SA, and totally different from Shotguns in Denver! Here in Calgary, there is to be no physical contact with any of the girls. So what you do is you sit around the stage while they drop their skants. And then you play a lil game of coinage - they stick a Looney ($1 coin) on their, um, on their thingie, and you have to whack it off (whoa, not like that!) with your Looney. This is actually a lot less sexual than it sounds. In fact, its flippen fun! And if you get it off (the Looney), you win a prize. Per game, the chicks must make about $100 for about 10 minutes of work! Cash money, tax free!
Well, thank God for our pinpoint marksmanship learnt from hours of marbles at primary school, cos between Herman and we won a helluva lot - signed posters, fridge magnets and Polaroids of the nekkid chicks on stage - pictures from a strip club, gotta be a first!!! Sadly come 2am, the lights came on, the music went off, the clothes came on, and we were off. We'll do that again, no doubt. But it cost a pretty penny, so not too often!
Saturday, October 7, 2006
We rented a car for the weekend from Enterprise - an out of the box, black Kia Maginko or something, and took it road trippin' out west to the mountains.
Along the way we stopped at the Canada Olympic Park where they held the 1988 Winter Olympics. How deshtroyer - they have the ski jumps, luge tubes and all the other cool stuff! But since it's not snowing yet, it's used as a killer downhill mountain biking circuit!
Check the gallery (7 photos).
Then off to Banff National Park, and a quick drive through the Banff town – one of those small towns where everybody knows everybody! But we didn't stay there too long, and drove another half hour to Lake Louise. Now I've seen some good looking scenery in my life, but this must be the one of the most beautiful places I ever seen, ever. Lake Louise is a bright turquoise lake, nestled in between the huge pine tree and snow capped peaks of the Albertan Rockies (I think I read that off the flyer?). We then decided to walk a trail to one of the lookout points, not realizing that the 1.1 km walk would be a lot tougher when it's a crazy uphill climb, through a dark snow covered pine forest, at really high altitude. But we got there eventually - such a view of the lake and the hotel.
Check the gallery for more of Banff and Lake Louise (18 photos).
Sunday, October 8, 2006
I can't remember what we did yesterday. Yeah , we just chilled during the day I think? Later that eve we drove out to Tequila's for the big Thanksgiving bash they were punting on the radio. Seven bucks bought us entrance into a real cricket fest, about 20 people in the entire club. So we went back to the French Maid, but just played pool in the bar area - there was to be no more throwing Looneys at no one's goen last night. Shit got pear and we made our way out at 3am, only to get harrassed by (damn fine) hookers. And that's why I was online chatting to all ya'll at 03h30!
Monday, October 8, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving! It's quite a non-event here, not like in the US. And we didn't even get a single invite for dinner. And they said Canadians were hospitable. Definitely a calmer Thanksgiving this year for me, especially after last year's deshtroyer in Vegas.
So I went to the zoo, seeing as though it was warm and sunny. And by warm, I mean it was about 6C when I got there at noon. It's amazing, and everyone is wearing T-shirts and eating ice-cream!
It's not the greatest zoo in the world, and for 18 bucks expected a lil more. Randomised my way around in just over an hour. Then I ot lost and took me a half hour to find the exit. And 10 minutes to find my car. And another 20 minute detour to get home!
But I got some good snaps - Canadian wildlife - bears, and elk and mooses and wolves and things...
The African section was quite lame. It's indoors, in this flippen humidified dome. But I've never been that close to a hippo before though. This dude wondered if giraffes were edible - so there I was - "I'm Safrican, and yes, some restaurants do serve giraffe. Tastes like chiggen. My pleasure".
Then onto the crappy Aussie animals.
Tree kangaroos. Huh? Who would've thought? So another dude was wondering if roo's were edible. And in my stock standard Saffer accent whipped out, "I'm an Aussie, and yes, them f'cken roo's are f'cken edible. If only you can f'cken catch 'em. Bouncy lil f'ckers."
Reckon the Canadians really hate Aussies now. My pleasure. So the Aussie display was really second hand, it was embarrassing.
And that was pretty much the whole zoo. So I decided to go home, and then got lost in the maze in the Prehistoric display {yawn}. After I deliberately skipped that section - big plastic dinosaurs, who cares?
Calgary Zoo gallery (25 photos).
And that, ladies and gents, was what went down this weekend. Probably a bit tamer than a Manhattan weekend out, but definitely more action packed.
'Til next weekend...
This is our second weekend here, and now that we're settled and know what is what, we decided to do as much as possible while the weather is still half warm.
Friday, October 6, 2006
We were planning to hit Whiskeys, which apparently is the latest and greatest club downtown, when the guy who sold us our cellphones reckoned we should spend our evening at the French Maid (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). We obviously cottoned onto what he was getting at, but Googled it, just to do some research. Girly bars are totally different from Teazers in SA, and totally different from Shotguns in Denver! Here in Calgary, there is to be no physical contact with any of the girls. So what you do is you sit around the stage while they drop their skants. And then you play a lil game of coinage - they stick a Looney ($1 coin) on their, um, on their thingie, and you have to whack it off (whoa, not like that!) with your Looney. This is actually a lot less sexual than it sounds. In fact, its flippen fun! And if you get it off (the Looney), you win a prize. Per game, the chicks must make about $100 for about 10 minutes of work! Cash money, tax free!
Well, thank God for our pinpoint marksmanship learnt from hours of marbles at primary school, cos between Herman and we won a helluva lot - signed posters, fridge magnets and Polaroids of the nekkid chicks on stage - pictures from a strip club, gotta be a first!!! Sadly come 2am, the lights came on, the music went off, the clothes came on, and we were off. We'll do that again, no doubt. But it cost a pretty penny, so not too often!
Saturday, October 7, 2006
We rented a car for the weekend from Enterprise - an out of the box, black Kia Maginko or something, and took it road trippin' out west to the mountains.
Along the way we stopped at the Canada Olympic Park where they held the 1988 Winter Olympics. How deshtroyer - they have the ski jumps, luge tubes and all the other cool stuff! But since it's not snowing yet, it's used as a killer downhill mountain biking circuit!
Check the gallery (7 photos).
Then off to Banff National Park, and a quick drive through the Banff town – one of those small towns where everybody knows everybody! But we didn't stay there too long, and drove another half hour to Lake Louise. Now I've seen some good looking scenery in my life, but this must be the one of the most beautiful places I ever seen, ever. Lake Louise is a bright turquoise lake, nestled in between the huge pine tree and snow capped peaks of the Albertan Rockies (I think I read that off the flyer?). We then decided to walk a trail to one of the lookout points, not realizing that the 1.1 km walk would be a lot tougher when it's a crazy uphill climb, through a dark snow covered pine forest, at really high altitude. But we got there eventually - such a view of the lake and the hotel.
Check the gallery for more of Banff and Lake Louise (18 photos).
Sunday, October 8, 2006
I can't remember what we did yesterday. Yeah , we just chilled during the day I think? Later that eve we drove out to Tequila's for the big Thanksgiving bash they were punting on the radio. Seven bucks bought us entrance into a real cricket fest, about 20 people in the entire club. So we went back to the French Maid, but just played pool in the bar area - there was to be no more throwing Looneys at no one's goen last night. Shit got pear and we made our way out at 3am, only to get harrassed by (damn fine) hookers. And that's why I was online chatting to all ya'll at 03h30!
Monday, October 8, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving! It's quite a non-event here, not like in the US. And we didn't even get a single invite for dinner. And they said Canadians were hospitable. Definitely a calmer Thanksgiving this year for me, especially after last year's deshtroyer in Vegas.
So I went to the zoo, seeing as though it was warm and sunny. And by warm, I mean it was about 6C when I got there at noon. It's amazing, and everyone is wearing T-shirts and eating ice-cream! It's not the greatest zoo in the world, and for 18 bucks expected a lil more. Randomised my way around in just over an hour. Then I ot lost and took me a half hour to find the exit. And 10 minutes to find my car. And another 20 minute detour to get home!
But I got some good snaps - Canadian wildlife - bears, and elk and mooses and wolves and things...
The African section was quite lame. It's indoors, in this flippen humidified dome. But I've never been that close to a hippo before though. This dude wondered if giraffes were edible - so there I was - "I'm Safrican, and yes, some restaurants do serve giraffe. Tastes like chiggen. My pleasure".
Then onto the crappy Aussie animals.
Tree kangaroos. Huh? Who would've thought? So another dude was wondering if roo's were edible. And in my stock standard Saffer accent whipped out, "I'm an Aussie, and yes, them f'cken roo's are f'cken edible. If only you can f'cken catch 'em. Bouncy lil f'ckers." Reckon the Canadians really hate Aussies now. My pleasure. So the Aussie display was really second hand, it was embarrassing.
And that was pretty much the whole zoo. So I decided to go home, and then got lost in the maze in the Prehistoric display {yawn}. After I deliberately skipped that section - big plastic dinosaurs, who cares?
Calgary Zoo gallery (25 photos).
And that, ladies and gents, was what went down this weekend. Probably a bit tamer than a Manhattan weekend out, but definitely more action packed.
'Til next weekend...
