SW SK & SE AB

The Waverley Cemetery service for Uncle Don was lovely with the Legion forming an honour guard and the family placing red roses. At a reception in the Glentworth Hall all of the boys spoke and showed a video of Don's lifetime highlights. We gathered for a dinner that evening and brunch the following day at which friendships were renewed with all of the cousins. On the nostalgic return trip through "the land of the living skies" we visited several national historic sites. First was Grasslands Park "where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play"(and also the endangered Prairie Dog and Swift Fox). Next on to the T Rex museum where dinos discovered in the Eastend area are displayed. Then on to the very beautiful Cypress Hills where we enjoyed a sundowner on the Conglomerate Cliffs with a young couple from ON and overnighted at an historic ranch. Next on to most interesting and informative Fort Walsh,the first North West Mounted Police Fort in the North West Territories, and then to Writing on Stone where the spirits visit those who carve and draw on the amazing structures. Finally the wonderfully designed centre at Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump where for 6000 years the First Nations people of the plains ingeniously obtained most of their needs:food,hides,and bones for tools.