Calgary Stampede!!!

Well it's that time of the year. When the whole town goes crazy for a couple of weeks as we host our annual rootin tootin good cowboy times at the infamous Calgary Stampede!

Anybody that is anybody in these here parts knows what good fun Stampede is. It's just one big party with some western flavor and good all around craziness. Just south of downtown in the Stampede grounds there's all sorts of good stuff to check out. It's similar to PNE for you west coasters and CNE for you east coasters - but better! If anyone knows how to throw a party... it's Calgary! People travel from all over the country and even from the states to come and check out the festivities. The whole town gets involved and for these couple of weeks people will be walking around in cowboy boots and hats having a good 'ol time.

Last night at work we had a huge Stampede BBQ for everyone. It was good times all around with management at the BBQ cooking up hot dogs and hamburgers and buckets full of ice cold beer. But the real party started at about 7:30pm when a bus rolled into the parking lot to take us all to a downtown bar to finish the night off! The bus was hilarious. It was an old converted school bus and was called "The Party Machine". We were dropped off in style with music blaring the whole way there.

We went to a bar called The Roadhouse. I had actually never been there before. It was more of a country style bar, but holy heck was it a good time. All sorts of people two stepping and having fun. We all got 2 free drink tickets at the door and those were quickly consumed. And then the boss kept walking around and giving out more and more drink tickets. I can't even recall how many drinks I had last night but what I do recall is that I didn't pay for a single one! That's one good thing about this company. A couple times per year (usually Xmas and Stampede) they party it up right and usually it's a open tab at the bar for the employees!

After about 5 hours of drunken partying myself and 4 others all crammed into a cab and made our way back into my neighborhood where at least 10 employees of AirSprint live! So that worked out well. I slept not too bad, took a little extra force to remove me from bed, but overall I didn't get too f'ed up.

Can't wait for the xmas party... :)