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!
