By now, August 10, 2012, we had been touring the US and Canadian Rockies for nine days,
running up close to 2000 Km on our rental car.
Our original plan was to spend the first half of our last day in Jasper visiting Lake Maligne and Medicine Lake
and then drive to Calgary to spend a night in the city before flying back to San Francisco the next day.
But we were forced to alter our itinerary because the only road to these two lakes was closed due to rock slide.
So we left Jasper after breakfast and headed south.
We first stopped by Lake Louise to do a seven-Km hike.
Lunch was in Banff at the Old Spaghetti Factory, where we had dined three times already on this trip
and my favorite dish was its Seafood Fettuccine Alfredo.
As we past Canmore, a small town 30 minute drive east of Banff, huge mountains and snow capped peaks gradually
gave way to gentle rolling hills and vast grassland.
Soon, the city skyline of Calgary was looming in distance under the bright summer afternoon sun.
By the time we checked into the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Centre Street in downtown Calgary,
it was close to 6:00Pm in the evening but the sun was still very high in the sky.
A swimming session in the hotel pool on the 18th floor left all of us extremely hungry.
After more than a week subsisting on cold breads, sandwiches, hamburgers, nuts, bananas, apples, trail mixes,
beef jerky, and pasta, we were literally dying for any food that was Chinese.
Luckily, Chinatwon was only three blocks away from the hotel.
We took a leisurely walk down there and chose to dine in the Silver Dragon simply because it was very busy.
The food was good, authentic Cantonese, and the decor was clean and elegant.
After dinner, I strolled around the hotel area, where there were numerous bars, street cafes and skyscrapers,
and large crowds of young people gethered.
My first impression of Calgary was a very pleasant town.
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