On the road in Calgary...

A couple of Deweys are in Calgary to do a presentation to the librarians en route to Edmonton and then the Alberta Library Conference in Jasper. Despite the fact that we left a balmy, sunny Toronto at 23 degrees for a cloudy 1 degree in Calgary, we've had the afternoon to ourselves and for us that means shopping! I've long wanted to go to the Kensington area of the city to seek out Pages Books on Kensington - one of Canada's best-known independent bookstores, but in the past, I've always been told it was too far away from downtown to get there without a car. However, once we looked on the map, it really was only about twelve blocks from our hotel - for Torontonians who walk everywhere downtown, anyplace within an hour's walk is imminently doable. It's a nice area full of interesting shops and restaurants - between the two of us we've managed to buy a funky book bag, lingerie (which you can really only buy with a girlfriend - check out the Cat's Pyjamas if you're in the area), lemon daisy cookies, jewelry and of course books! Pages runs a wonderful reading series - one of their walls is covered with numerous black and white author photos from past participants - and has extremely knowledgable staff who are avid readers. Now we're trying to figure out if the noise on the streets tonight will be louder if the Flames win, or if they get kicked out of the playoffs....