Day 27: Travel and Bomber Command Museum

May 11, 2014

Happy Mother's Day! We called and wished our mothers a Happy Mother's Day before we crossed the border into Canada Saturday. They are both Godly women and we love them very much. We hope they had a wonderful day and many more to come!

We had sunshine coming in our windows this morning! It was 27 degrees but warmed up quickly and we had no problems with anything freezing up overnight. We had our own worship time this morning and listened to Tyler's recorded message from last week. Great message,Tyler!

We then left Claresholm and went only a few miles up the road to our first stop at Nanton to visit the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. When we heard of this Museum we immediately thought of our 94 year old friend who was a pilot in WWII and wanted to visit and get some pictures to share with him. This reminded us that it was not only the US soldiers who fought and died to secure our freedoms but all those like the Canadians, and other countries who also fought that war.

Link Trainer

 

The drive today was really not very much fun. Traffic from Calgary to Edmonton was awful. Definitely the worst we have had since St Louis and while traffic was bad in St Louis, we traveled much shorter distances. It was a pretty drive toay. For a large part of the day we could see the sun on the snow covered Canadian Rockies. Very nice. We are currently in Spruce Grove, AB.

Cute barn we saw

The only highway rest area we have seen with its own diner

Much to our surprise we had to revert to PAPER maps today. With all our electronics we were rather appalled! The lady at the Lethbridge tourist information center gave us maps with new bypass routes for Calgary and Edmonton. Although we keep all our GPS's updated none of them have these 2 new roads. Admittedly the one in Edmonton didn't even have the number on it yet when the map was printed but really.... we know there are family members laughing now since we were forewarned to have paper available and yes we successfully used paper.

Animals – Llamas (2), golden eagle.

That's it for today. We are tired, need to get some rest and tomorrow we should get pretty close to the start of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek.