Happy Fourth of July ! It seemed strange not to be celebrating with some kind of festivities and no public recognition of the importance of this day anywhere around us. Our only connection was the patriotic music we listened to on our Sirius radio station on the way to Calgary.
It completely escaped us that Calgary had been completely flooded in 2014 and there was construction everywhere making moving around the city a little more complicated but we were able to find the zoo and spent a really fun afternoon checking it out.
Before heading to the zoo, we had to have lunch and of course, we found the new location of Bobby’s Place so we could share East Coast Poppers with Carol. She was impressed just like we were.
We were very pleased to see that most of the enclosures for the animals were very different to most other zoos. Each was much larger than normal and made to look more like the natural habitat of the animals. Having to redo the entire zoo because of the flood gave them the perfect opportunity to make changes that were a great improvement. Here are some of the pictures Jim took:
I guess every cloud has a silver lining.
Tomorrow is a road day towards Vancouver and Carol’s first exposure to the breakdown and set up processes and the long boring drives of moving.
Here are a few pictures from Salmon Arm where we stayed overnight on way to Vancouver
View of Lake from campground in Salmon Arm
Park in Salmon Arm – overlooking Lake Shuswap
View of mountains at Lake Shuswap, Salmon Arm
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