Calgary Trip - The Fox on 6th

During our trip we stayed at the Ramada Downtown Calgary and Brenster and Tanya Carrum were playing in the bar attached to the hotel - The Fox on 6th.  They were great as usual and a bunch of us from Mazatlan joined them and reunited.  It was great!

 

 

Calgary Trip

This weekend we were able to enjoy a long weekend with a trip to Calgary to see our Mazatlan friends.  The Brenster and Tanya Carrum were playing for the Stampede at The Fox on 6th which brought throngs of people from Mazatlan to enjoy their daily shows and reunite with great friends.

We had a great time.  Lots of fun.  I'll write separate posts on the great food we ate but here's some pics of our trip that don't relate just to the food!

  They know me in Calgary??

And my favorite . . .

4404 - For Sunday Brunch

So me, the self proclaimed anti-buffet person was excited about going to the Sunday Brunch Buffet at 4404.  I read that they have all you can eat King Crab on the buffet and all for $24.95!  So I gathered some friends and my family and we made plans to take a friend this Sunday for her birthday.  We were so excited about the prospect of all you can eat King Crab Legs that we started joking around the day before and counting down the hours until the King Crab buffet with my husband joking that I would probably wake him up in the middle of the night to tell him "six hours to the King Crab Legs buffet".

Well, clearly I overestimated the whole experience.  We arrived, were seated, visited a bit and then went and saw the buffet.  I first headed to the crab and boy what a let down!  There was no big, overflowing plate of King Crab Legs  There was a platter of meager amounts of unimpressive snow crab legs.  Disappointment.  I was pretty sure that there was sushi on the buffet - but no, so my son was disappointed.  And the rest of the buffet was pretty standard fare buffet stuff - drying out in heating plates - the reason I don't like buffets.  Well, that's not entirely fair - the bacon was excellent!  It was maple bacon and is there really a bad bacon?  The apple crisp for dessert was also excellent. 

But Philly took some great pics so I'll let those do the talking.

Dairy Queen - 23rd Avenue

I don't usually crave sweets but after dinner tonight we all wanted a little dessert.  So the guys headed down to Dairy Queen to pick up take out.  I had a Pecan Mudslide with extra caramel and no chocolate - it was perfect!