They seem super great and on Sunday, have a free family dinner type thing. The one problem for us was that it was a turkey family dinner, so we still needed to go out. I had searched for vegetarian restaurants in the city to give us plenty of options and we went to the closest one, The Coup.
Mind you, it wasn't particularly close but oh well!
I would say that this has been my first failed meal as a vegetarian. The restaurant was totally vegetarian/vegan so we had lots of options but none of those options looked good. I ended up going with a veggie burger that had tempeh, pickles and dressing and was served on a ciabatta bun. It just wasn't good. Mandy got the same burger and neither one of us liked it. I also got rosemary yam fries, as in someone had a brain aneurysm and said, instead of frying these perfectly good potatoes, I'll just cook up this yam. And I ate it. And it didn't taste too bad. It also came with a garlic dipping sauce which was probably the best part of the whole meal.
There is a lot of shopping to be done on this street by the way and we'd planned on going tomorrow but there has been a slight change of plans.*
We headed back to our hostel and caught the tail end of dinner and spent a good hour talking with a Brit, an Aussie and a Canadian (which does sound like a joke...) who had just come from a wedding in Banff.
This was when we realized that on our way home from dinner, we'd passed a restaurant that supposedly served some of the best milkshakes in Calgary. We needed to go back! So we headed back out but when we got to Clive's Burgers (which smelled so good it nearly broke my heart), their ice cream machine was broken! We ended up walking a few more blocks to have some really awful Dairy Queen... But, better milkshakes are definitely in our future!!
Now we're back in our bunks (mine is F) and this girl in the bunk above me will not stop laughing. We don't know what she's doing but apparently it's very funny.
Tomorrow, my dad's friend's nephew is meeting us to show us around. (*This would be the change in tomorrow's plans I was talking about. Shopping was on the agenda before James had texted us back to make plans and we assume that he doesn't want to go shopping with us). We don't have a clue what we're going to do but he already seems pretty nice since he's taking his day off to show us around. Maybe we can all get milkshakes!
Oh, by the way, while Americans will be celebrating President's Day tomorrow, the Canadian's have Family Day but we don't have a clue what that means except that some things are closed and James is free to hang out.
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