What is there to do in Calgary for fun?

[Bunk]

Try taking a stroll through places like Inglewood, Chinatown, Kensington, 17th Ave etc. Lots of shops/restaurants/cafes you won't see in a strip mall or shopping centre. Good for people watching.

Walk, cycle or rollerblade the Bow River pathway/riverwalk. Check out Crescent road - killer view of the city.

[Nage Waza]

Body has some injuries that need healing, so sports may take a back seat to start metal detecting. Anyone else here do that? I have a few spots planned, any suggestions for places to check out?

[Winsor_Pilates]

Drive 3 hours north and go to a huge mall!

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by Nage Waza

Body has some injuries that need healing, so sports may take a back seat to start metal detecting. Anyone else here do that? I have a few spots planned, any suggestions for places to check out?

Gonna be searching for cans to tip with?

[Nage Waza]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Gonna be searching for cans to tip with?

Hopefully I can find some old bottles and things like that, they make a much more impressive tip.

[saskflames69]

Drive 8 hours north east and visit Fuddruckers

[jayswin]

Drive to Edmonton and visit the Ikea that they have there.

[troutman]

The skiing in Banff is unprecedented. Record snowfalls.

[Northendzone]

. watch tv
. wash your car
. sit outside of a superstore liquor and watch for the shock on customers faces as they exit the store and realize how much they just paid for pop
. grammer rodeo's/spelling beez

[THowie]

I have a friend who's moving to the Calgary area this month. Thinking about going up to visit her sometime this year? Best time?

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by THowie

I have a friend who's moving to the Calgary area this month. Thinking about going up to visit her sometime this year? Best time?

It's the Stampede's 100th anniversary this year. It's always a party and should be even bigger. COming from Nashville you'd probably appreciate many aspects of it.

It always starts the Friday before the first full week of July and goes 10 days.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Nage Waza

Hopefully I can find some old bottles and things like that, they make a much more impressive tip.

Bottles aren't metal.

[Nage Waza]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Bottles aren't metal.

Old bottles are good finds if you are looking around old homesteads and things like that. The detector won't find them, but if you happen to find where they used to throw their garbage, you luckily can find intact bottles, jars etc.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Nage Waza

Old bottles are good finds if you are looking around old homesteads and things like that. The detector won't find them, but if you happen to find where they used to throw their garbage, you luckily can find intact bottles, jars etc.

I was just busting your balls. Funding stuff like that would be fun but with my luck, it would result in nothing more than a fairly significant rusty nail and barbed wire collection.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Nage Waza

Body has some injuries that need healing, so sports may take a back seat to start metal detecting. Anyone else here do that? I have a few spots planned, any suggestions for places to check out?

I saw a commercial for Whites Metal Detectors the other day. Bloody hilarious. I was pretty much thinking that it looks like a crappy time to carry around a weedwacker that beeps, as well as a shovel, and wait for a beep and then dig a hole.

I think the best thing about the commercial was that they were going to include some treasure in your order, assumably so that you can bury it in your yard for your kid to find.