August 11, 2010
The fort was interesting and the musical ride was performed by a group of young horsepeople (mostly girls) in their teens. It wasn’t the big RCMP musical ride but they did do a good job.
Then across the Alberta prairie eastward to the Badlands at Drumheller. Drumheller is home to the Royal Tyrell Museum .
This area has had major discoveries and digs, and has attracted palaeontologists and geologists from all over the world, who work at the Royal Tyrell . This museum includes displays of finds from many other countries and boasts one of the worlds largest displays of dinosaur skeletons. It doesn’t matter how many times you have visited this place, there is always something new, and things you missed “last time” Our visit was cut short by a fire alarm that caused an evacuation of the premises, but I think our feet had had enough anyway by that time. It always amazes me, that with the number of children going though the exhibits that there is very little bad behaviour. (must be the fascination)
We had a rock chip in the windshield that Jerry got repaired locally, and we drove around the area to the Atlas Coal Mine and then across the 11 bridges to Wayne. (Site of a chapter 44 rally last June) and out to Midland Provincial Park (another coal mine). We are staying at a Walmart parking lot while we wait for my prescriptions to be filled. (received permission from management to stay parked here until they have the medications I need)
We will head on to Saskatchewan this afternoon hopefully.