Hi MandyMooChops,
Nicely done with the "Life in Prairie town Drumheller" description. You paint a real picture.
We've been twice and like the feel of the town, so different from the oil towns with the "Gold rush fever" atmosphere that are changing a lot of Alberta.
I'd recommend the museum but allow plenty of time or several visits.
I think my son (8yrs old) will end up working there as a professor.

Out of curiosity who does your other half work for and what kinda "stuff" does he mechanic?
I'm a Heavy Duty Equipment mechanic (off highway) as they say in Canada, moving to small town Alberta in six or seven weeks time (IF the dreaded house sale goes through when it should) and we get everything ready for the container(s).

Good luck with the bank job interview, hope it's a success.

Jim
PS. Have you had much snow at Drumheller yet?

Thanks for more best wishes guys! Alison its great to hear from you I hope you're coping with the waiting game (yet again!!!!!).

Jim have pm'd you!

Can't wait for the big party tomorrow - the experience i've had with Canadians is that they can drink most of us under the table - so may not be on for a few days while I recover!!!!

We had a great time at the Tyrrell museum and will definitely go again and again... and what about those Badlands?... very interesting micro-climate, perhaps best experienced outside of an August heatwave.

Anyhow MMC Sounds like you are settling in well. Keep us posted on the Xmas party (hell of a drive!). x

I'm coping well - the WP will be applied for 4 weeks on Monday coming so i'm trying not to rush home every day and check my mail until after Christmas and then if it comes before then it will be a bonus

hello!.....great post!!!!

i have been out there...and i loved ..the canyon we went to......when we went there.....a huge storm was rolling across the prairie....from across the canyon....it was an awesome site.....i managed to get a great photo of it too..will see if i can find it and post it back here.

fingers crossed for you that you got the job in the bank!.....you sound realy happy..and that is a great thing.

thanks for sharing your experience!

Best wishes mandymoochops - nice to hear you are getting the hang of things

Hi all,

Well an update on the xmas party.............

The Canadians sure do a good job, we had an amazing time! The food and drink were all laid on by the company - we just had to pay hotel room (of which we drank that amount in rum, whisky, beer and vodka shooters anyway!)

It was just such a good sincere atmosphere, the guy who owned the company (only our age) was really nice and whilst they had to do all the yearly run downs / long service awards etc etc it didn't seem like the coporate b******s that we had in the UK.

We played stupid games of mini hockey (so I hoiked meself off the chair grabbed o/h and got stuck in) needless to say we were crap but it was so much fun!

They gave away trips to las vegas as raffle prizes!!!!! The whole thing started at 5.30pm and at about 2.30am we were holding up our respective other halfs (mine won a penguin - stuffed not real and was proclaiming it as his best and only friend in the whole wide world by this point because it wouldn't shout at him for being drunk ) and trying to make it quietly back through the hotel to fall into bed.

In the morning we checked out and went for brekkie with another couple from his work and managed to say about two words before coffee kicked in . We eventually went shopping with o/h looking greener by the minute so knocked that idea short - went home and collapsed on the sofa at about 4pm yesterday.

What a fab weekend tho! Hopefully will hear about the job today!!!

Hi MandyMooChops,

Glad to hear that you are enjoying Drumheller, I spent 4 years living and working in the area until this summer when we moved to Kamloops, BC. Drumheller's a fantastic little town, you are right I couldn't figure out how everyone was excited to be getting a Walmart, but lots of people didn't want the commercialization of a Tim's!!!!!!! There used to be a drive-thru coffee place next to the Boston Pizza, now a liquor store IIRC? So after that vanished everyone assumed a Tim's would be soon here!

That disagreement between the newspapers as been on for quite sometime......you probably figured that one set of owners are a bunch of nutballs! Is your OH working for Deer Valley? I used to have some dealings with them and I know they were looking overseas for HD's.

We are visiting Drum next weekend (back in Calgary for Xmas) to visit British friends who live on an acerage out towards the hoodoo's.

Have fun

Mat

Ps. What do you make of the hutterites?

Hi Matt!

Thanks for that reply! Well you live and learn eh!

As for the Hutterites i've only seen them shopping in the mall but the shoulder pads on one guy were something else - I know you have to respect pthers beliefs and wishes but it was hard not to snigger - looked like a zoot suit!

What bought you to Drum and what made you move?

ps it appeared I was working for the aforementioned nutballs

Mandy, Great to hear you are having such a good time, would you mind contacting me off list, Me and my better half have made the decision to come and will be just down the road in Hanna !! just waiting for the WP but should be coming around feb/march and your help would be much apreciated.

Alan and Jacqui.

Shame about the Timmy's wonder if Hanna will ever get one??

those not in the know Hanna is around 35 Miles east of Drumheller, and doesn't have any of the sharp urban sophistication that mandymoochops has become used too!! lol

www.hanna.ca

Woohoo another prarie person! have just pm'd you!

I looked at the web-site ..... there's no photos of the tumbleweeds!!

Ooooooo low blow.

Yep that's what makes them tumble!

...but I did see one just east of Drumheller. It was the first we'd ever seen and it was so cool!!!!