This is the scene outside my hospital room this morning. Cities never cease to amaze me. This picture is, essentially, the city asleep. Yet it is so alive! It is not a very good picture as I took it with my cell phone. I wanted to show you The Bow, which is the Encana building (Oil Company) that is being built. It is the tall building on the left. It has 3 cranes on top of it!!! Isn't that amazing??!!! How did they get up there? Too much for this little prairie girl to fathom. Apparently, the first thing to be built in these tall buildings is the elevator, then the cranes just catch a ride on the elevator to the top, then build the rest of the building around it. I am in awe.
Airdrie and Calgary are about 15 km apart, so not very far. They built a mega mall in between the two cities. It takes me about 7 minutes to get to it from my house! (I'm just sayin'. In case shopping is in your blood and you want to come visit!) Very dangerous!! Anyway, because of the mall, they built a new interchange/off ramp thingy. It was amazing to watch it being built! I would be travelling on this very busy 3 lane highway (The Deerfoot) and they would be digging and building a road UNDERNEATH me! Yikes! Then, when they were done that, they built a road above the traffic! Wow! I have much respect for the vision of the engineers!
Well this is my friend Wendy! Laying in hospital and finding all of the good things in life to blog about! I enjoy reading your blogs.
ReplyDeleteI really think you should do a blog on the evolution of nursing uniforms and all the issues that its disappearance brings! I think we identified a few important ones on the weekend. haha But I'm hoping you do get to go home today. Keep me posted. Deanna
Well no WONDER the elevators have problems, if they spend their early years giving cranes rides up however many hundreds of stories!
ReplyDeleteThat's actually a great picture, of the city. It's sort of hard to imagine all the things going on, 24/7, isn't it?
I hope you get to go home soon!