Week ending Aug 11, 2016 Rosemary to Vulcan

Saturday, took in the Brooks Medieval Faire.   We arrived shortly after the gates opened at 9:30 so were able to get parking close to the site.  The parking recommendations for the Faire mentioned places as far away as Safeway and Walmart, which are at least 2.5 km away.  For people that didn't want to walk that far, one of the industrial yards close to the gates was providing parking for the day for only $5, and there were a few people taking advantage of it.

There were lots of people on the grounds in period costume, including some kids.

We walked through the vendor area, which was primarily stuff for costumes, with a other crafts.  We took in the 3v3 fighting melee, a battle between Edmonton and Calgary groups. 

We listened to the Hibikiya drum team.

We watched 3 kids having a sword fight. They have strict rules of behaviour.

The highlight was the jousting tournament, with representatives from  England, Quebec, Sweden, Australia and Strathmore  and a judge from Belgium.  We were surprised that about half of the jousters were women. 

 Sunday we watched the NASCAR race.  It was a rainy day anyway.

Monday, we moved to Vulcan.

Tuesday we did a 4km walk around town.  Then we went to the local laundry and discovered that they only have cold water for washing clothes now.  We decided to go to the next nearest laundry, in High River.  So we bought some groceries and had lunch there, instead of spending our money in Vulcan.

Wednesday, spent the morning figuring out how many airmiles would expire at the end of this year, by viewing the transaction history using the maximum months on the pop-up, then changing the range=-11 in the URL generated to -55.  That showed us all the details from January 1, 2012 until present, along with the total of all of the air miles since then.  

Thursday morning, we did a 5km, following the full route of the walking trail around town.  When we got back to the campground, there was another Titanium setting up.  It was the lady that we had met last summer in Enchant, and then again in Bow City.  We chatted with her for a while.  

We will be spending the rest of the summer in the Calgary area, so will not post new blogs until we leave Cochrane on October 14.

We will be in:
Vulcan    until Mon, Aug 15
Irricana  until Sat, Aug 20
Cochrane  until Wed, Aug 31 
Olds      until Wed, Sep 7
Banff     until Wed, Sep 14
Cochrane  until Fri, Oct 14