Complete Guide to the Calgary Zoo Lights
Calgary Zoo Lights Every year around the start of the Christmas season the Calgary Zoo strings over 2 million lights around their grounds and invites everyone to come over after dark, and it’s spectacular. It really transforms the regular Calgary Zoo know and love, into a themed magical winter wonderland. If you haven’t been to the Calgary Zoo Lights yet,…
Things To do in Calgary for NYE 2018
The Ultimate Guide to New Years Eve in Calgary The year is wrapping up and you need somewhere to ring in the new year and say goodbye to 2018 – we’re here to help! Here’s a list of things to do in Calgary for NYE, 2018 edition. Hopefully your year was a good one. For us? Good and bad. Said…
Checking Out The Downtown Central Library! 29 Photos
The Downtown Central Library is Awesome! Calgary’s Central Library is located just on the eastern edge of the downtown core and you’ll want to check it out, even if you don’t plan on borrowing anything. Designed by the Norwegian firm Snohetta, it has multiple beautiful levels architecture filled with books, music, electronics, desks, play areas, comfy furniture, rooms you can…
Infinite Circle Hoops: Hula Hooping in Calgary
Hooping in Calgary A super awesome friend of ours recently started teaching classes showing people how to use hula hoops for dancing and fun and exercise, after she learned how to do it herself and killed it. And we’re going to tell you about her. Hooping in Calgary isn’t something we know too much about, but we wanted to learn…
Things to do for Valentines Day in Calgary (2019)
Valentines Day in Calgary There are always a number of events taking place around Calgary ahead of Valentines day, as well as on February 14th itself. We thought it would be fun to list some of the lesser known things you can do for valentines day in Calgary. Have a really fun night out as a couple! Or just end…
New in Calgary: Hoopla Donuts! By Phil & Sebastian
Hoopla Donuts, in the +15! Everyone likes donuts, and if they say they don’t, they’re lying or they’re a snake person, or maybe both. Stay vigilant. Calgary actually has some decent donut stores too, but it’s mostly Tim Horton’s everyone thinks about when they think donuts, which isn’t exactly known for the quality of their products. Recently I was invited…
A&W just opened a new restaurant in downtown Calgary. 7th & 7th sw!
Downtown A&W Now Open! A new A&W restaurant just opened it’s doors on 7th avenue, right beside the 7th street LRT station downtown. It’s freshly painted, well staffed and quite welcoming. Something amusing though, is this A&W is open 24 hours! All day, every day. This is pretty cool actually, I’m down for 3am Mama burgers, but think about it…
Simply Great Coffee at Circle K
Simply Great Coffee Coffee is life. From a single cup in the morning to 2 pots a day, wherever you fit in on the spectrum, you understand it’s necessity. The coffee selection in Calgary is actually pretty decent these days, with a wide varieties of basic slow drip coffees to the ridiculous whip cream white mocha things available on every…
Best Tacos in Calgary? Here’s a top 10 list!
Best Tacos in Calgary The term “best” is very subjective, so it’s difficult to make a ‘top 10 list’ that everyone can agree with, but, screw it, we’re gonna make a list anyway and hopefully everyone agrees with it because we’re awesome. Here are some of the best tacos in Calgary, as rated by us! But I mean, this is…
Trying something new and healthy: Feel Good Syrup
Feel Good Syrup, made with Elderberries I’ve been trying to eat at home more often, prepare more healthy treats for Mini, and just trying to do better by us all in general. It’s hard some days, working as much as I do and dealing with some health issues, but it is made a little easier when I come across local…
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Help Identify Wildlife Spotted In Calgary Parks On Trail Cams!
Calgary Captured Calgary Captured is a project that utilizes the internet (both technologically and help from volunteers like you) to identify and categorize which species of wildlife call Calgary home. Placed throughout various Calgary Parks were a number of trail cameras that took photos of any/all wildlife that happened to pass by it, using motion sensors. To date the project…
The Calgary Police K9 Unit Is Now On Instagram
Such A Good Doggo Yesssss the Calgary Police K9 unit just opened up shop on Instagram. The account is run by the K9 team themselves (though it’s possible we might see the doggos themselves actually share content…. right?). Follow them here: https://www.instagram.com/calgarypolicek9/ View this post on Instagram It’s so much easier to make Instagram posts now that we don’t have…
The Secret Riley Park Tree House
Built Into A Tree For All To See Tucked away in the bottom of an old (magical) tree in Riley Park is a miniature tree house, though nobody knows who built it, or when, or who lives there now. Some people think a family of mice, or perhaps a group of fairies live there. Maybe it’s a geocache? Whatever the…
Historical Calgary vs Current Calgary in Photos!
Historical Calgary, and what it looks like today in the same spots Ever look at an old-timey historical Calgary photo and wonder what it might look like today? Historical Calgary looked pretty interesting! The lack of cell phones is striking. I wish we could go back in time and record Google Streetview data to compare it to modern day Calgary….
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Win Tickets To Circle Carnival September 13th/14th! (2019) (ENDED)
Septembers Best Time Circle Carnival is once again descending upon Calgary for two days of food, beer and of course, music! We look forward to this event every year, because it has everything and it’s right here in the city. Food and beer and music yeah but there’s way more than just that (as if food/beer/music aren’t enough). They have…
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