Since I'm visiting Tacoma for a few days and I'm not roaming on my US phone anymore, I could finally download some photos:

This is the first photo I took in Canada - a sign in the Tim Hortons bathroom. (Hm...I hope this doesn't turn into a metaphor of some sort). I just thought it was cute. The staff want to "make it right." 

This is a typical scene in the grocery stores in Calgary - the shopping carts are chained together with little boxes. You put a coin in the slot in the box in order to release the shopping cart. Sometimes it's a quarter, sometimes it's a dollar coin. You get the coin back when you return the cart and hook it back up to the chain. The first time I got a shopping cart I didn't know I could get the coin back and I thought it was just another cost saving measure, but now that I know you get the coin back, I realize it's an incentive to get customers to return the carts. Probably better than getting a bag boy to come out in the parking lot in -20 degree weather in the winter. 

This is the light rail / pedestrian bridge over the bow river. The light rail goes on top and the pedestrians / bicycles go down below: 

This was a promenade I passed by in downtown Calgary:

These are (bad) photos I took from the light rail station on a Sunday night. I was trying to capture the Calgary Tower in the background as well as the juxtaposition of the very modern light rail station with an older, brick building in the background. I blame the crappy camera on my phone.