At last our new oven! I am so happy with it and it has had a lot of use. Chocolate cake, homemade pizza, chocolate buns, thanks giving dinner, more homemade pizza - I have missed pizza these last 3 months!


On Saturday morning we walked to the farmer's market.




Free range, organic, certified humane turkeys going for over $100 for thanksgiving!



That evening we cooked our thanksgiving dinner, with a chicken, roast potatoes, parsnips and carrot, stuffing, broccoli and homemade cranberry and apple sauce. It was really good. I think roast dinners are officially my favourite meal.



On Sunday we relaxed and Mike finished sorting out the computers, and we took a quick trip to Ikea. Then Monday we a day trip to Elk Island. We walked the Hayburger Loop, or half of it anyway, I got a bit concerned when we saw Bison sprinting and decided we should turn back.


You can just make out the Bison in the photo below, through the trees.


We went Geocaching for the first time! It was pretty busy with 2 other families looking for the cache at the same time and since we didn't find it first it was kind of a give away but it was fun! There are 8 in the park and once you have found them all you get a special coin as a prize!





Mike driving round the Bison again.



We made a campfire at Tawayik Lake and had sausages and marshmallows for dinner!




As we were leaving the park a beaver walked across the road in front of us! Can you spot him?

We visited Calgary Farmer's Market.



Then we went for lunch at Craft Beer Market. There's meant to be one opening in Edmonton soon but the date keeps getting pushed back and Mike has been looking forward to going there!


The food is locally sourced and was delicious!



After lunch we went on a walk to the Inglewood neighbourhood and passed Fort Calgary on the way.



We were headed to The Uncommons to check out their selection of Camp Brand Goods clothing. I managed to get a t-shirt but they didn't have the jumper I was after. Going to have to hope it become available agin online and in my size!

While we were in the shop, the guy was saying so many people seemed to have come down from Edmonton this weekend and that it must be because everyone is getting their trip in while the road is still passable, before winter hits!


Downtown Calgary.



For dinner we went to Big T's BBQ and Smokehouse, opposite the stadium for the Calgary Stampeders football team, where we could hear the game going on. It was pretty busy round there but we managed to get in the restaurant.



Somehow we don't have a photo of Mike's beer, but we called into at least 3 liquor stores looking for a particular beer that evening - Toolshed Star Cheek, which is brewed in Calgary.

For breakfast we went to OEB which was so good! It's very popular and we had to wait 40 minutes outside to get in!


Tastes as good as it looks!



On the way home we stopped in Cochrane, a quaint suburb of Calgary.


We went to Mackays and got some of their famous ice cream.


Chocolate, vanilla and pumpkin.



We drove past a farmer's market so stopped off to investigate.



Postcard views on the drive home.


There had been an accident on the road so we were going very slowly as all the traffic had to merge into one lane. Some driver's were too impatient for that though! See the cars driving down the hard shoulder, and on the grass at the side!

Last weekend we went to Elk Island for our final camping trip of the season. It was a little chilly on Saturday morning (ie freezing!) but once we got a fire going we were fine and the rest of the time the temperature was warm enough. There were quite a few other people tent camping too, so that was reassuring!
The weather has now shifted towards winter and it is much colder. Apparently we had 'wet snow' during the night on Tuesday and yesterday there was hail. It has been coat and glove weather all week, but it is warming up slightly for this weekend again.


Our new car! We pulled over at the visitors centre for Mike to take over the driving as we were off the main roads and it was pretty quiet. However, the wildlife was out in full force and we had to stop a few times for bison on the road.

The next day we went to Beaver Hill Pond for a walk, but the pond seems to have disappeared. This happened last time we were in Elk Island and went to Tawayik Lake and there was just grass and no lake. We didn't see any wildlife but got to see the Autumn colours!




We then went to Astotin Lake and did the Boardwalk Walk there, and then ended up on the playground!




This is back on our campsite.


After dinner we went for a drive since we had seen so much wildlife the previous evening (we had also seen a moose while we were on the Highway coming to the park the day before) and we saw bison. Lots of bison, and also 3 coyotes!