Saturday--get up early and check out. Stop at the Bear Claw for coffee and muffins. We have a 6 1/2 hour drive to Calgary plus any stops we make along the way. The Columbian Icefields are the first stop--it's cold and windy so we decide NOT to hike.
It's also very foggy with the rain coming in. These glaciers still amaze me. We ate lunch at Chief Chiniki's restaurant. His granddaughter was our waitress. I backed into a trash can (NONE of us saw it) and broke the tail light on the car.
We checked into the Palliser Hotel which was gorgeous.
(Remember you can click on the pictures to make them larger.) We walked several blocks to the Devonian Gardens--beautiful gardens on the top floor of an office building. The pictures don't do it justice. You can't imagine how beautiful it really is. 
The brochure said that people who work around there go there during their lunch hour. 
There were real turtles and real koi in the ponds. The fox under the arbor was bronze. We would have stayed longer but they closed it early on Saturday. As we were walking downtown there was a wedding party being photographed in the middle of the street. We thought it was part of a movie set. And speaking of a movie-there really was a movie being filmed.
We stopped at the StarCuisine.com trailer to ask directions. Of course, I had to know everything! Disney was in town filming "The Snow Globe". They had built a set outside of Calgary and the man in the trailer was cooking dinner for the actors and extras. While we were walking down the street we saw a cow! There was an art exhibit of cows and my goal was to "shoot" them all. Here are the ones I found:
Don't you just love them? I think my favorite was "Cowabunga" (the Bart Simpson one!) Our hotel was right by the Calgary Tower. It was beautiful.
Dinner was at Joey Tomatoe's (recommended by someone we met at Jasper). 
After a day like today we actually ordered drinks! We walked down to Eau Claire Market and looked around. It began to rain so we went back to the hotel. REST, oh sweet rest.
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