Visit to Canada, June 2002

During half-term, Spike was lucky enough to visit Calgary in Canada with Ms Steed.  Calgary is the home of the Calgary Stampede, the world famous Rodeo.

A tiring journey - time for a nap!	What a welcome - being savaged by a dog!			I was best man at a wedding!
	Hitching a ride on a well-behaved dog!
Spike doing brunch! Brunch is eating breakfast and lunch at the same time, and Spike ate lots!
				Sitting on the back of a pick-up truck, just like a real Canadian!
Spike stayed with a friend who works for a Canadian airline company called ‘Westjet’ Spike was able to have a look around where the planes are kept and where the staff do their training to work on the planes.  Spike went into a pretend plane and acted like a noisy passenger – Tammy had to calm him down and made him some dinner!  Spike then tried to fly a plane! Thankfully it wasn’t real! But he made all the noises of a plane really well!
A Canadian Fire Truck!	A Canadian School Bus!	Visit to the zoo to see lots of different animals
			Spike went to visit Drumheller in Alberta. Explorers from all over the world go there to dig for dinosaur bones! There are thousands of fossils in Drumheller! We went to a museum to look at all the fossils and learnt about how they dig for them.
		Near Drumheller there are ‘Hoo Doos. They are sandstone rocks that have worn away leaving these funny mushroom looking towers.
			We went on a suspension bridge that leads to an old mine. It was very wobbly and we all thought that we were going to fall off into the water below
This is how Canadians move house - what a funny lot they are!	Spike went to see a ‘gopher museum’ that has gophers dressed up in different costumes! Spike saw a mountie gopher. Gophers are about the size of a squirrel and you can see them anywhere in fields, because there are lots of them.		These horses were called Lass and Rico - they appear in the Calgary Stampede
Spike went into the mountains. We went to Banff, which is a National Park. There are lots of wild animals living there, but we only saw a chipmunk! We went up to the top of the mountain on a gondola which is shaped like an egg and hangs onto a wire. It takes about 10 minutes to go up to the top, spike was scared of how high we went.