Day 2

Day 2 of our trip, we left Calgary for some really flat land. No more mountains in sight.

This is one is for the street lines. Were finally seeing long stretches of the road where you can pass. Ethan was quite impressed.

We detoured to Drumheller to see the Royal Tyrrell Museum, (It's a Dinosaur Museum). The entire town has  statues and things about dinosaurs. Here is the T-Rex on the IGA's building.

Inside the museum you are greeted with this scene! Scary!

These are fossils of a member of the T-rex family.

Here is another representation of an almost full skeleton of a T-Rex, this guy has traveled the world to visit many museums.

The skull of what they believe to be the Grand-father of the Triceratops.

I believe this was referred to as bird steelers, or something of the sort, these little guys (they are quite tiny, about 1 meter high or so.) Steal the eggs from nests.

Karine, with her new best friend, who needs a cat or dog, when you can have a dinosaur!

This is the land surrounding Drumheller, they are little hills of sandstone where you can see all the layers. Many of Canada's dinosaurs have been found in this region.

More views of the surrounding hills. They are extremely pretty! Worth the little detour.

More scenery.

And again!

Once more!

This is the old Atlas Coal Mine.

The Atlas Coal Mines tipple.

Probably Karine's favourite picture of the trip so far, it is so cluttered with mining equipment, it makes the mess look really pretty.

Red dirt!!!! Red dirt!!!!! Reminded Karine of PEI.

A recreation of the train system that used to bring miners in and out of the coal mines. We are also getting a tour aboard this little train.

If this video works, you can see a small section of the train in motion, turn your speakers down a little bit, its quite loud.

One last scenery before we left for Medicine Hat, AB

In Medicine Hat, we met up with Karine's friend Loring for dinner.   All in all, we only traveled about 4 hours of distance today.