First, I spent the stay in Drumheller. It reminded me quite a bit of another small dinosaur community in the middle of no where.... Namely Jensen Utah. They both are in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by flatlands with the occasional oil derrick (is that the right word?). Then the towns themselves are kind of podunk with lots and lots of random dinosaur statues in front of every business in town. Oh, and then they also both have beautiful, impressive dinosaur museums of course. I just think it is an interesting example of cultural convergent evolution.
Second, people in Canada really do say "eh" a lot.
Third, I was really impressed by the museum there, particularly in the way they melded art and science. In several exhibits they only had partial dinosaur (or other fossil) skeletons and they completed it with an artistic sculpture to dive you an idea of the whole while still preserving the magnificence of the original specimen. Plus, there exhibits in general were just very visually appealing. I love it when art and science work together.
*This should actually be something like Comments on some random things I noticed while on a trip to Canada... but it just doesn't have the same ring to it...
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