Medicine Hat

Ooooo... a 45 minute flight and I got to stay overnight in the fabulous Medicine Hat Best Western. =D

It actually wasn't too bad, the hotel room was quite nice and the food was excellent at the little Mediterranean grill that was next door (kind of reminded me of Olive Garden). But being on call, I was unable to enjoy a nice red wine with dinner, so a Coke had to suffice.

Not much to say about Medicine Hat, we didn't travel around very much, went for a walk in the freezing cold after dinner and found the cemetery by accident. When flying in though, I did make out one of the biggest "attractions" as it stood tall over the prairie landscape. Medicine Hat is home to the world's biggest tepee. Yup, that's right... 20 stories tall to be exact. Other than that, nothing much to right home about.

Upon leaving though, it had started to snow, and I had to continually brush the snow off the wings while we waited for the passengers to arrive. It was cold and snowy and not a pleasant setting. Finally we get everyone on board and took off into the clouds, we never did get on top of them and we were in the clouds all the way to the ground in Calgary. On the approach the Calgary tower gave us the current surface condition reports at the airport which were quite nasty: "braking action reported as POOR entire runway length, only 100' wide plowed down centerline of runway, taxiways and runway exits very slippery". But we landed without incident and I went about my business of scraping off the car and driving home in the winter weather.