Giant Pandas at the Calgary Zoo

I was very excited to find out the Calgary zoo had 4 giant pandas, a male and female and two juveniles. Darla and I were both quite excited to go see them. Mostly they were lounging around.

There were lots of jokes about this guy having a hard night.

  I've posted a few pics of some of the other animals. This is a wild boar.

An Asian snow monkey. I thought he looked lonely

  This Asian camel was kind of odd looking.

  Baby Asian camel

  A chameleon

Red river hogs

 

lazing hippos

Lemur

Grizzly bear

Prairie dog

elk

Whooping crane

Musk ox

River otter

Caribou and Reindeer are the same animal

Dall sheep

these guys rammed each other right before this pic

Penguins

Second day in Banff National Park

We enjoyed a second day up in the Canadaian Rockies.

It was so beautiful, all the peaks and glacial lakes and rivers are an amazing turquoise.

And we saw quite a few glaciers.

In the Columbian ice fields, they were taking people in big trucks right up the glacier.

Evening Show at The Calgary Stampede

The Evening program was amazing. Anything you can name was in the show: a drum line coming in on zip lines, acrobatic roller skaters, ventriloquists, comics, singers, bands, dancers, illusionists. It was pretty crazy and ended with some wonderful fireworks.

Evening show opening

  Eddie the eagle, the ski jumper was even part of the show.

It was the 50th anniversary of the evening show and they spared no expense.