Welcome to my first stop. To the place I currently reside. To the first step on the journey of the rest of my life….

Where the trucks are raised and the wings are cheap (but they don’t taste cheap!) And rodeo season is celebrated all round.

The oil is mined on your doorstep; with the smell of burning fuel and the light of the flames dancing in the sky…I sample it daily, driving up “Refinery Row” on my way to work!

Where you are in the Prairie lands, ten minutes after leaving the most Northerly city in the world! (with a population of over a million that is).

The location of the second biggest mall in the world; which houses a water park, a shooting range, a full size replica of the Santa Maria (complete with lagoon and performing sea lion) and a whole bunch of Albertans who insist on wearing ten gallon hats and top to toe checked flannel garments. I swear I see cowboy boots DAILY. But those special cowboy shops don’t even exist in the mall! It’s a mystery!

In fact, here you can be a professional cowboy! PROFESSIONAL! And I tell you now, that is big freakin bucks!

Home to the Oilers, the Eskimo’s and that’s just the sports teams, not even the pet names for each other!

Wolverine came from a town on our outskirts… look it up, there’s currently a petition to have a statue of him built and showcased in the city!

Here they have festivals all through the summer and snowboard on the cities slopes all through the winter; all 8 months of it!

Welcome my friends, to Oil Country, to the City of Champions. This really is the Texas of the North.. A land rich in oil and honey, with residents embracing every bit of their identity! With their God given right to drive faster than you, in their immense truck, in whatever bloody lane they please! Enjoying poutine and hot sauce and all the many, many beers in between!. This is Edmonton! Alberta, Canada #YEG! and this is the documenting of it by a wee curly red haired lass from little ol’ Scotland 🙂

Hi, I’m Catriona and this is my blog 🙂