Your last day here, what do you do? - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Superflyer · 09-01-2008, 09:18 PM

I was thinking about this today, lets say you are moving away to (insert far away place here) in the next couple days. So with your last couple of days here in Calgary what do you do to take it in one last time?
I figure with this we can find the best places and things to do.

1. Where do you eat your last meal in Calgary?
2. What is the last place you visit?
3. What is the last event you take in?

And you cannot answer take in a Flames game, that is to easy.

CMPunk · 09-01-2008, 09:23 PM

Say good bye to my friends, otherwise nothing...I'd just pack and leave

Frank the Tank · 09-01-2008, 09:27 PM

But what if you haved moved from Calgary and the last thing you really did was take in a Flames game? Thats what we did. Whole family went for one last game and the next morning we got up and drove our Ryder rent-a-truck and minivan to Ontario in January (many many years ago, not this past January). Now THAT was fun!

4X4 · 09-01-2008, 09:40 PM

The questions are hard to answer because it would depend on where I was moving to. Assuming that I was moving somewhere completely urban (like I did before), the answers are as follows:

1. Last meal in Calgary would be at my parents' place. Stepmom and sis are two of the best cooks ever.
2. Last place to visit would be twofold. First, Queens Park Cemetary. Next, some pub with the inner circle (where they'd likely go on and on about dumb crap like this weekend's idiocy)
3. Last event would have been a Flames game. Since you want more original ideas, my last event would be self created. Camping and a wild tear through the mud in my 4x4.

It's a cool thread idea you have here. I've thought about it dozens of times. I realized it once. I hope to realize it again in about 10 years. The time that it did happen, the decision to move was so spontaneous and short noticed, I didn't have time to go to a game or make one last trip to the woods. I had to sell 95% of my posessions, evacuate my house, pack and leave in less than two weeks.

Bobblehead · 09-01-2008, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

But what if you haved moved from Calgary and the last thing you really did was take in a Flames game? Thats what we did. Whole family went for one last game and the next morning we got up and drove our Ryder rent-a-truck and minivan to Ontario in January (many many years ago, not this past January). Now THAT was fun!

Frank! This your once a month post? You need to come around a bit more often. I was thinking about ya when I was in London last month, wondering if you were still in the old south area of the city.

Actually, I think a corollary to this question is, "Of the people who have moved away, what is the thing you must do when you come back (beyond visit friends/family; that is a given)?"

Dion · 09-01-2008, 09:46 PM

Go rafting and camping with 4x4

Superflyer · 09-01-2008, 10:09 PM

I just realized I did not answer my own questions.

1. The last place that I would eat would be, Salt and Pepper. I just discovered this place and it is really good.
2. The last place that I would visit would be K-Country, just so amazing out there and I would like that to be one of my last memories. Other then that I would go to the Zoo, I love the zoo and spend a lot of time there.
3. The last event that I would take in would be a Stamps game or Hitmen game depending on the time of year. The Flames would be an answer but as I said that is to easy. I might also take in the Stampede, I am not a huge fan of it but if it is my last time to have the chance then I might take that in one more time.

Winsor_Pilates · 09-01-2008, 11:16 PM

The last thing I would eat is a vietnamese sub. It's the only thing I can't replicate here in Van.
Other then that, I spent time with my parents and friends and just got out.

icarus · 09-02-2008, 12:26 AM

I always like to grab some Ginger Beef during my annual or biannual trip to Calgary. It's a Calgary original. Oh, and steak of course, gotta have a last minute steak before leaving town.

Engine09 · 09-02-2008, 12:58 AM

Take a drive out to Banff in the morning, rafting down the Bow in the afternoon and dinner at Moti Mahal.

foofighter15 · 09-02-2008, 01:03 AM

when i was moving i just took time to say by to everyone before I left. We had a couple going away parties. The one with the boys, then the night out as well. Its all you really need to do. But to answer your questions from when I moved
1. Steak BBQ at my buddies (a tradition we all make sure to do when I'm in town)
2. Ship and Anchor was the last night out.
3. My going away parties.

shane_c · 09-02-2008, 05:55 AM

I left last August and didn't really do anything. I stopped working a few days before I left. We were trying to sell the house so we were dealing with that stuff and didn't have time for much else. So the morning to leave came, said goodbye to my fiance who was staying until the house sold, hopped in the cab and went to the airport. Nothing too exciting, but then again, I was glad to leave.

Rifleman · 09-02-2008, 06:20 PM

I'd go to the Calgary Tower. It would be nice to look at the city from up there, and see what you are leaving behind. Even better still, have a genuine honest-to-God steak made with Alberta Beef in the revolving restaurant with friends and family.

And depending on where I was headed, I'd either toast my friends in celebration of new opportunities, or if I was moving to Edmonton, weep like a little girl into my steak while my drool soaks the table after attempting suicide via binge drinking.

zukes · 09-02-2008, 09:06 PM

I miss the ginger beef in Calgary, have never found anything like it elsewhere.