Monday, August 11, 2008

Nights In Calgary


While up in Siksika, I also made some trips off the reserve to Calgary. Calgary is an hour west of Siksika Nation. During this trip I made my first visit to the "Red Mile". This is a stretch of 17th Avenue west of the Calgary Flame's Saddle Dome arena. This is where Flames fans go crazy when their beloved hockey team does well. This stretch of road is loaded w/ pubs, restaurants, and clubs.
A Calgary Community Garden

Also able to squeeze in a merengue/salsa lesson at the Don Quixote Tapas Bar. The lesson was taught by Marcos Ruvelo from Cuba. He was pretty funny, and taught us a cool merengue move (this took most of the class). We then tried dancing this merengue move to salsa. I must admit that I had some difficulties dancing this move in salsa. Oh well, had some fun.
Salsa at Don Quixote's

Spent a Monday night checking out some classic rock n' roll with: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This was the first time Tom Petty and his crew ever made it to Calgary, and you could tell. The sold out crowd at the Saddle Dome went INSANE for Petty. I'm not a huge fan of Petty, but he played all the songs I knew and liked as well as a Traveling Wilbury's song. It was pretty awesome. Thanks for the tickets Trudy!




Had a mini-family reunion at Glenmore Park on one evening. Our "tribe", consisting of tons of kids, took over an area of the park and a few barbecues. On the menu....well, lots of meat. :) It was so good to see all of my cousins and their awesome kids (I can't begin to pretend to know the names of all the kids! It was so good to see so many Blackfoot kids.)

A Screamin' "10"

"10" and Mom

My last night was spent w/ my cousin Letty, and we checked out the T'suu Tina's new casino and had dinner there. After hanging out the casino, we caught a late movie, Pineapple Express. I knew I'd be hatin myself in the morning for the late night, but had a fun time.

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