This past weekend was like "old home week". We travelled to the town where my husband and I met 53 years ago. It is a small prairie town in central Alberta, and whenever we have the opportunity to visit friends there or attend a special event, it feels like we've gone back home. We both had jobs in that town that we enjoyed; Ed was the telephone guy and I was a newly graduated registered nurse in the 19-bed hospital.

This past weekend, we attended the annual Show and Shine Car Show, which has become the largest such show in Western Canada. We heard that there were about 700 vehicles registered. Main Street is eight blocks long, and both sides of the street was filled with angled parked entrants, and a third row down the middle of the street, parked bumper to bumper. At the west end of Main Street, the vehicles were parked on one side of the street for three blocks in either direction from Main Street. That is a "bunch" of cars and trucks in one town, not to mention the myriad of riders in leathers who arrived on their motorcycles. 

Here is a tiny "taste" of the show...

Three Hills Show & Shine Car Show - 2015

This could be another of my weekend Armchair Travel episodes.    

Mona

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