Friday, we drove from Big Valley to Stettler where we stopped for groceries and a mid-morning snack. Then we carried on to Camrose, and set up in the Camrose Regional Exhibition Campground. It is quite a nice campground with good sized spaces and decent facilities.
On Saturday, we went to the farmers market being help in one of the malls. We didn't find anything we were looking for. Then we went to the Visitor Information Centre on Mirror Lake in the middle of the city. Surprisingly, it was closed on a Saturday morning. It did have maps of the walking trails along Camrose Creek, formerly Stony Creek. This is a nice walk, with interpretive signs describing the city's history, through a park setting until you get to 44 Ave. South of that is Stoney Creek Park, which still has a paved path, but is through a more natural area. Branching off the paved path are cross-country ski trails. We walked down as far as the trestle crossing the creek, before returning through the town above the valley.
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| Trestle in Camrose Creek valley |
On Sunday we did another walk in Camrose, this time along the top of the creek valley around the Valleyview subdivision. We saw a train run through just below us. We were surprised to see a little 'garden' growing at the front and back of a couple of hopper cars.
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| Train along Camrose Creek |
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| Garden on a hopper car |
At the end of the trail, back up in the subdivision, we came to a man-made lake. It had a goose family calming swimming across the lake until a red-winged blackbird got annoyed with them and dive-bombed the trailing goose. It kept this up for a few minutes.
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| goose being dive-bombed by red-winged blackbird |
On Monday, we drove up highway 21 to Edmonton. Just before we got to highway 14, we were stopped by a crew moving a couple of large loads, each with 22 axles and a tractor pulling and another pushing it. Before the load got to the intersection, the crew rotated the traffic lights out of the way.
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| 22 axle load |
We checked into Glowing Embers RV Park just west of the city. As we were getting setup in the assigned site, a fellow in a trailer behind us asked if the office had told us the water wasn't working in that site. No!! It has been spraying water out of the side of the tap when it is turned on since last fall. John headed back to the office to see if we could be moved to another site. The found us one, so we moved over to it.
We spent the rest of the week with George moving all of thing remaining in Dad's storage unit into either his small storage area in the garage of the condo complex or to Ann's. It took us 5 trips to move everything using our truck.
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