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Friday, January 06, 2006

Day 4 - downtown on NYE Part 1

Decided to go downtown during New Year's Eve to see how Canadians celebrate. In the end, the whole place is quiet and boring.





I guess they simply celebrate at home (can smell barbeques while walking home that night) or go to pubs for a drink (intended to go 17th Ave to take a look but in the end decided not to).

At downtown, we took a look at the "famous" Calgary Tower.

Not very tall, 525 feet. In fact, there's a building across from the tower which is taller! But I think this building has significant history, since its used as a torch for the 1988 Olympic Games. Well, it appears that the interesting thing in Calgary is its history. Presently, there's nothing really special about it.






MZ and SY seem very happy about being on top of the tower though. Non-stop photo taking from them. (Actually, I believe I took more photos than them, I even so boliao as to take their pictures :p)



Brave me sticks my body out of the tower. A little bit more and down I fall.

After that, we walked to Chinatown. Actually, its quite small, nothing much to see also. Most people are inside the shopping centres (There are 2 big ones) and they are mostly Chinese and Vietnamese.
Far East Shopping Centre has a branch in Canada.

Had lunch there, but theres nothing special. Not nice, and expensive, as is all the food we had eaten so far.

posted by Gordee @ 1:17 PM

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